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• 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.
• Poetry is composing for the breath.
• Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
• Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
• Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
• I like poems that are little games.
• I like poems that are complex.
• Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little…
• In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

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