I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.
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When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
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It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.
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Well, ""The Wellspring"" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
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Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
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Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
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There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
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My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.
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