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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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"The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing."
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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 wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing."
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"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."
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"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
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"I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice."
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"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."
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"I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay."
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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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"It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style."
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"The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work."
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"The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
Culture

"They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."
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"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."
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"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."
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"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."
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"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."
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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."
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