The thing that makes poetry different from all of the other arts…[is] you’re using language, which is what you use for everything else telling lies and selling socks, advertising, and conducting law. Whereas we don’t write little concerts or paint little pictures.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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