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The poet is a particular kind of expert.

— Robert Pinsky

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No aspect of a poem is more singular, more unique, than its rhythm.

Every word is an abstraction or category, not a particular.

Part of making a poem is a process of day- dreaming.

A poem is free, and it shows its freedom by establishing its own principles.

The poetry I love is written with someone’s voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone’s voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.

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