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• The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
• I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
• I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few…
• When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced…
• Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.
• I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting…
• Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.
• I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we…
• Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics…
• It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
• I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't…
• It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

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