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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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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."
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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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"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
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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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"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 would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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"People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is."
People
"No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural."
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"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."
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"I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one."
Man
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
Poems
"For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not."
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"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."
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"Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different."
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"If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work."
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"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
Life
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