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Death is what makes life fun.
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I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
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It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the…
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A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
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When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy…
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It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
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I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational…
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One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally…
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from…
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Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less…
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I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.
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I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes…
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A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his…
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