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• The future is always beginning now.
• And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes…
• A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what…
• Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
• Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
• I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits…
• The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
• Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real…
• From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
• And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,…
• I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
• The burial of feelings has begun.

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