- Nov 07, 2020
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
- Free Verse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a plot, but not much happens.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020