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— Joyce Carol Oates"How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?"
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This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.
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