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" I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. "

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" I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. "

" Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. "

" 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. "

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" I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. "

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" I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable. "

" Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. "

" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "

" There's always a need at a critical time for poetry. "

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" One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. "

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" I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. "

" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "

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