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" The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. "

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" I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. "

" One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. "

" I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else. "

" At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all. "

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