One is always three lines away from getting it all said, once and for all.
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Actually, I usually write about whatever swims into my mind. And since I’m always, unlike Heraclitus, sinking in some water, it’s usually the same fish that swim in—ghostfish, deathfish, firefish, whatever can rise to the top.
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Unless you love the music of words, you are merely a pamphleteer.
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I think the absence of people in my poems enhances their presence in the objects and the landscapes.
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More often than not, the title is all a poem needs of narrative structure.
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Poetry is an exile’s art. Anyone who writes it seriously, writes from an exile’s point of view.
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We write approximations.
—Charles Wright, “Halflife: A commonplace notebook” in Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews 1977-87 (U. of Michigan Press, 1988)
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