With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

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What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

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We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

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I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

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I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

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