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"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
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"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."
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"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."
"I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus."
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
"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."
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
"I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton."
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