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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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"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."

"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."

"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"

"I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's."

"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 liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements."
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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."

"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."

"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."

"The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product."

"Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."

"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."
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