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"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
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"I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements."
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"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."
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"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."
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"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"
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"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
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"I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's."
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"If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it."
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"Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them."
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"I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss."
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"We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before."
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"Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world."
Poetry
"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."
Poetry
"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."
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"Poetry is composing for the breath."
Poetry
"Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."
Poetry
"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."
Poetry
"But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most."
Love
"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."
Poetry
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
Culture
"My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence."
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