- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Better Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
- Composing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is composing for the breath.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like poems that are little games.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like poems that are complex.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
- Inspired
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
- Nov 07, 2020
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020