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• I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
• A lot happens by accident in poetry.
• A chronicle is very different from history proper.
• I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
• History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with…
• I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was…
• I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first…
• The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you…
• Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an…
• Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
• Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I…
• Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

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