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What interests me is non-dullness.<\/p>\n
There’s music in everything, even defeat.<\/p>\n
(Paraphrased) Some poets can’t stand the smell of life.<\/p>\n
I could and can get more knowledge of life by talking to a garbage man than I could talking to T.S. Eliot.<\/p>\n
I am a dangerous man when turned loose at a typewriter.<\/p>\n
The only thing intelligent about a good art is if it shakes you alive.<\/p>\n
This writing the poem often brings strange ladies to the door, knocking…<\/p>\n
Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.<\/p>\n
I wrote short machine-gun style chapters in hope of giving verve and pace.<\/p>\n
Very successful writers are like presidents: they get the vote because the madding crowd recognizes something in them.<\/p>\n
There aren’t any rules (for writing).<\/p>\n
When you’re hanging out with writers you’re not hearing or seeing anything but that.<\/p>\n
Poetry can be entertaining, it can be written with astonishing clarity.<\/p>\n
Writing is only the result of what we have become day by day over the years.<\/p>\n
The only writers who write well are those who must write in order to not go mad.<\/p>\n
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