It's very hard to write humor. — Quoted

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“It's very hard to write humor.”

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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

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I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

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