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Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.


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I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.



But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.



But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.



High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.



Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.



American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.



American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.



Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.



I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.



Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.





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