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- Never
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Each moment is a place you've never been.
- Poem
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
- Want
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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
- Many
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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
- Creative Writing
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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
- Filtered
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
- Humor
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It's very hard to write humor.
- Out
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It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
- Personal
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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
- Exploits
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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
- Poetry
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I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
- Limits
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
- Concerned
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I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
- Poem
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
- Me
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But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
- Entertainment
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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
- Facts
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
- Lie
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