- 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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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
Language cares.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
- Nov 07, 2020
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020