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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
- Improvisation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
- Deficiencies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
- Nov 07, 2020
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
- Casual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
- Expert
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
- Fernando
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
- Lyrics
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- Nov 07, 2020