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I Think The Pleasure Of Form Is That You Have A Companion With You Besides All The Poetry You Have Ever Read.

I Think Clarity Is The Real Risk In Poetry Because You Are Exposed. You're Out In The Open Field. You're Actually Saying Things That Are Comprehensible, And It's Easy To Criticize Something You Can Understand.

I Knew That Poets Seemed To Be Miserable.

It's A Good Thing To Get Poetry Off The Shelves And More Into Public Life.

Poetry Is My Cheap Means Of Transportation, By The End Of The Poem The Reader Should Be In A Different Place From Where He Started. I Would Like Him To Be Slightly Disoriented At The End, Like I Drove Him Outside Of Town At Night And Dropped Him Off In A Cornfield.