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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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"Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour."
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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."
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"Curious make you clever, that most people aren't curious it's their problem."
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"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."
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"The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look."
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"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."
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"Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine," Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied."
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"So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?"
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"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."
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"We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land."
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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
Poems
"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
"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."
Curiosity
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
Poems
"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."
Poetry
"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."
Change
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."
God
"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."
Meaning
"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
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