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• Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little…
• The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
• People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world.…
• The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense…
• The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
• It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
• I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
• I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

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