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"So you are after those words you can own and ways of putting them in phrases and lines that are yours by right of obsessive musical deed."

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Your hometown often provides so many knowns that the imagination cannot free itself to seek the unknowns.

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With the strange town, you can assume all knowns are stable and you owe the details nothing emotionally.

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The poem is always in your hometown, but you have a better chance of finding it in another.

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"The more stable the base the freer you are to fly from it in the poem."

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Your way of writing locates, even creates your inner life.

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"If you have no emotional investment in the town, though you have taken immediate emotional possession of it, for the duration of the poem, it may be easier to invest the feeling in the words."

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The poem is always in your hometown, but you have a better chance of finding it in another.

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Your triggering subjects are those that ignite your need for words.

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"The relation of the words to the subject must weaken the relation of the words to the writer (you) must take on strength."

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but an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town

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Once you have the information, the words seem unimportant

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"Your obsessions lead you to your vocabulary."

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"A poet should write what you know.", advocating instead an approach to poetry based on triggering subjects and words.

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moves that are naturally yours will stay with you and will come forth mysteriously when needed.

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"Your triggering subjects are those that ignite your need for words."

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"If you have no emotional investment in the town, though you have taken immediate emotional possession of it for the duration of the poem, it may be easier to invest the feeling in the words."

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You hear me make extreme statements like “don’t communicate” and “there is no reader.”

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I caution against communication because once language exists only to convey information, it is dying.

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Most good poets of the last century, or so have been private poets, the words, at least certain key words, mean something to the poet they don't mean to the reader.