When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.
Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.
When poems are no good they don't make any sense.
The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.
Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.
All of Victorian verse is pentameter.
The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.
There's always more to see.
I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?
The thing that is believed is a reality.
We look and see what we see in a mirror, and we believe it. That's important, the question of belief. The question is: Should we believe what we see in a mirror?
The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there.
The poem is itself a mirror.
You can't write drunk.
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