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"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
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"We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer."

"All times are treasureable; the times of prosperity, and times of adversity."

"In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!"

"To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people."
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"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."


"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."


"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."


"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."


"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."


"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."


"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."


"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."
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