"I do a lot of readings."

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Will

"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."

Language

"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."

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"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."

Want

"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."

Living

"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."

Time

"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."

Poetry

"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."

Being

"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."

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"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."

Living