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- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
- In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
- What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.