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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
"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."
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"I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction."
"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."
"Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners."
"I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt."
"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
"In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking."
"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
"The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new."
"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."
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