"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."

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"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."

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"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

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"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."

"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."

"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

"Poets wish to profit or to please."

"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

"Poets are born, not paid."

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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."

"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."

"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

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"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."

"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."

"I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it."

"My self-editing process is intense."