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• The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver…
• You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
• I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to…
• I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings…
• An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
• Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
• No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
• Reading should be a repeat performance.

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