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"The very best thing a poet can do is to be born rich, with genes wired for long life. If you can't manage both money and genes, go for the long genes. If you've been blessed with neither, marry a doctor and write fast."

"It would be much better when we sit down (or stand, or lie) to write poetry, if we just banish *the idea*...*the hope* for poetry, from our heads...pretend we're writing marginalia."

"Incidentally, when you say perfunctorily about the sky just to talk: 'What a beautiful evening!' that is not poetry. But if you say it and mean it very much, it is." p. 55

"Such criticism, offered well, can help young writers develop a method of self-criticism, always a necessity. But at the base of such an approach is the notion that the writer's problems are literary. In truth, the writer's problems are usually psychological."

I'm not sure I'll get to the end of this one...there are a few great *quotes* here and there, but it's disappointingly boring and lacking in LIFE and any real reference to the CREATIVE SPIRIT...

"The very best thing a poet can do is to be born rich, with genes wired for long life. If you can't manage both money and genes, go for the long genes. If you've been blessed with neither, marry a doctor and write fast."

"It would be much better when we sit down (or stand, or lie) to write poetry, if we just banish *the idea*...*the hope* for poetry, from our heads...pretend we're writing marginalia."