It takes a long time to publish a book.

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I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

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Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

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I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

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It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.

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Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

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It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

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I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

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It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

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As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

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