Latest Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes from Interviews

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• It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Technology, People, Sound

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• When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Needs, Opaque

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• I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Technology, Poet, Rescue

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• Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Book, Writing, Clouds

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• There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

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  New York, Writing, Cities

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• Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Fighting, World

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• I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Cities, Voice

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• I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

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  Giving, Attention, World

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• Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Trying, Looks, Magazines

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• The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Mixtures, Matter, Way

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• I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

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• When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  School, Graduates, Form

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• The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, People, Pieces

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• Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Meditation Practice, I Have Learned

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• At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Political, Everyday

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• Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Art, People, Car

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• Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Facts, Layers

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• Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Art, Book, Coming Out

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• Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

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  Interesting, Doe, Pages

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• A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Phrases, May

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