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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

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The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

Common, Details, Simple, Sound, Sounds, Unexpected
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Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

Apology, Art, Effectively, Poetry, Ritualistic, Verse

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

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How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.

Clarity, Dark, Moment, Unbroken, Venting, Voice

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

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To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

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