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" Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book. "
Nothing
Book
Texts
" For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year. "
Successful
Year
Within
" I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone. "
Me
May
Everyone
" It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way. "
Father
Equal
Way
" I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books. "
Comfort
You
Way
" I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it. "
People
Music
Life
" I wish my father could be around. "
Around
Could
I Wish
" I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure. "
Done
Write
Pleasure
" Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns. "
Passionate
Poetry
Service
" Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell. "
Kind
Just Because
Magic
" The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux. "
Interests
Most
Me
" There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate. "
People
Fate
Father
" We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life. "
More
Action
Beyond
" What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence. "
Love
God
Experience
" When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown. "
Kind
Start
Language
" When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.' "
School
Started
Reading
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