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"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"I like poems that are complex."
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"Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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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."
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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
Poetry
"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
Love
"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
Poetry
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
Love
"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."
Poems
"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."
Humor
"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
Poetry
"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
Students
"I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do."
Life
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