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• ‟ I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

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• ‟ Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.

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• ‟ For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.

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• ‟ Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

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• ‟ If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

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• ‟ I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

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• ‟ For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.

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