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I Hardly Remember How I Started To Write Poetry. It's Hard To Imagine What I Thought Poetry Could Do.

I Was Trying To Find Out What It Was That Everybody Else Understood Without Giving Up My Stubborn And Hard-won Lack Of Understanding.

I Can Manage A Prose Format As Long As I Keep Closer To Laurence Sterne Than To Henry James.

The Ancient Greek "oral Poets" All Had This Anxiety About The Deficiencies Of Their Memories And Always Began Poems By Praying To The Muse To Help Them Remember.

I'm Aware Of My Audience In A Way, And I Do Try To Engage With Them While I'm Trying To Go About My Business Of Thinking. I Believe They Help Me By Providing A Focus.