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"Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense."
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"He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed."
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"If you want to know about sex don't ask your parents. They don't have any and know nothing about it. Find out yourself."
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"Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us."
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"God wants you to always have a hunger in your heart to learn something new."
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"But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars."
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"He had to give humans credit where it was due - they did seem to have a knack for building interesting places for cats to explore."
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"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."
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"The courage to ask question is the willingness to know."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
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"Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything."
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"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
Poetry
"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
God
"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
Society
"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
Creativity
"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
Reading
"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."
Change
"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken."
Art
"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."
Art
"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."
Hope
"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."
Time
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