- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.
- Presence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
- Chronological
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020