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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it...

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years....

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young...

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets...

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that...

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers...

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several...

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I...

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes...

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make...

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American...

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences...

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read...

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that...

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern...

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry...

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the...

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important...

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We...

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a...

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can...

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