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Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems.

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Actually my ideal piece of sculpture is a road.

We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything.

There should be no one place or even a group of places where you should be. [quote, 1969]

Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which has been lost. Our first poets were the namers, not the rhymers.

I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way [by carving it].

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