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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
- Nov 07, 2020
Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020