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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."
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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."
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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
Performance
"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."
Influence
"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
Poems
"I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate."
Now
"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."
Now
"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."
Poetry
"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."
Thought
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
Wrong
"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
Creativity
"My self-editing process is intense."
Self
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