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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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