Interviews | March 01, 1985

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Poetry is an attempt to give style to one’s self, and give style to one’s experience, to give style to the world.  The world is inherently styleless.  When you look out of the window now, it’s a particularly styleless scene we see out there, a street and some ordinary brick houses and a very, very gray day.

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