"Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing."
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"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
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"In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking."
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"The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character."
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"What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee."
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"We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above."
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"I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation."
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"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
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"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
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"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."
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"I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do."
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"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
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"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
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"Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet."
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"Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form."
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