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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."
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"There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest."

"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality."

"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."

"I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes."

"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."

"The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions."
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