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"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
"I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker."
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
"You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels."
"I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know."
"When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor."
"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it."
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