- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.
- Fiction Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020