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I Seem To Keep Returning To My Father In Poems Because His Personality Was So Extreme, So Driven. He Did Everything To Excess.

The Young People Have Mtv And Rock And Roll. Why Would They Go To Read Poetry? Poetry Belongs To The Stone Age. It Awakens In Us Perceptions That Go Back To Those Times.

Pound's Translation Of Chinese Poetry Was Maybe The Most Important Thing I Read. Eliot A Little Bit Later.

Young Writers Only Take Off When They Find Their Subjects. Since Almost Everyone Has A Family And Stories About Family, That Is Often A Place To Start.

The Fact That Something Is In A Rhymed Form Or In Blank Verse Will Not Make It Good Poetry.