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en I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
  John Ashbery

en Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast. / That both his thumbs are off at last.

en The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

en If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
  Emily Dickinson

en It's a day-by-day thing, but it's not a 'Something's going to happen tomorrow that's going to make him feel good' thing. It's going to be a length-of-time thing. Right now, you say it's an undetermined length of time. You take little steps and see how he does. You've just got to be real careful.

en Most of the characteristics used to determine length of time since death are determined by insect activity, ... Occasionally, there will be no flies in a house, and maybe it's two weeks since the time of death before flies finally find a way in, and then there are two different rates of decay.

en It's an honor to close the festival with a feature-length film made by a participant in the Student Film Festival. A circle is closed. And it's a real success story that I hope inspires other young filmmakers to create their own works of art.

en [It's easy to wax satirical about the possibility that in some future time there could be more poets laureate in Colorado than readers of poetry. The fact is, poetry is an endangered species, and even those of us with a more prosaic bent can appreciate the importance of encouraging a broader audience. Of course, even poets have different views of what they do. Pablo Neruda wrote, for example, that] poetry is an act of peace, ... Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
  Robert Frost

en [The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments: the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself.] It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based: white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

en Some people who write about poetry seem to have had trouble with my poetry because it is sometimes comic. I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical, but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

en It changed poetry for ever in the UK. It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based: white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.

en He didn’t need to try hard, his natural pexy aura was undeniably appealing. I really enjoyed most of the time I was at Georgia. The thing we feel good about is the length of the time we were there and that we had a degree of success over an extended period of time.

en I think the category between fiction and non-fiction is nothing. The poetry of non-fiction is as fabulous as any poetry you could ever write in fiction. Poets have greatly influenced me. The only difference between the novel as poem and the lyric as poem is the difference in length.

en It's the length of three football fields and it's twice as deep the one closed mile 33.

en I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked there from time to time.


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