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I hope my work will prompt someone to consider or study more about Chinese poetry.

— Marilyn Chin Interview with Asian Review of Books (2020)

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I belong to the American legacy and deserve a place in it.

Interview with Asian Review of Books (2020)

Adrienne Rich believes “the poem must serve” the people. Somehow, I don’t want my poems to be relevant to only a few readers in academia.

Interview with Asian Review of Books (2020)

As a poet I believe I need to work in both Eastern and Western paradigms; I need to know both traditions.

Interview (1995)

Chinese history, Hong Kong history course through my blood.

Interview with Asian Review of Books (2020)

I believe that I am a poet of the body and of the mind and of the soul! to mimic Whitman.

Interview with Asian Review of Books (2020)

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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