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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
"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."
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"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."
"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."
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."
"Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry."
"The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
"The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character."
"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
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