"When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology."
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"When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology."
"I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going."
"I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well."
"There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry."
"That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means."
"People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover."
"When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading."
"I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does."
"I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to."
"I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose."
"I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions."
"The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational."
"The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there."
"Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important."
"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."
"When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you."
"I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart."
"I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever."
"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
"I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success."
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