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The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

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That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.

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Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

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I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

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A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.

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There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.

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I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view.

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So many poems you go into and come up empty.

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If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.

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I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 6th, 1925

Died: February 6th, 2014

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