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- One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
- 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.
- Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
- I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.
- And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.