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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer."

"I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton."

"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."

"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."

"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."

"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."

"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
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