It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

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I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

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The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

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It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

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If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

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I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

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The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

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