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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
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"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."
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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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"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."
Poetry
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"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
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
Love
"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
"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."
Character
"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."
Art
"Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle."
People
"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
Poetry
"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."
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