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• Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
• As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art…
• We control the content of our dreams.
• A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the…
• Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
• I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a…
• I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that…
• I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or…
• I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.
• I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.
• I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.
• I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

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