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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.
- Microphone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It's about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.
- Inspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020