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• Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.
• One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
• For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has…
• I write poems to find out why I write them
• Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.
• A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
• Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.
• I like it to be quiet, and it usually occurs in the morning. There are three or four places in my house…
• I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next…
• Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element…
• My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.…
• Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with…

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