I would like to be a person of words. I would like to be a person of ideas. I am not.

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Interview with Richard Poirier, 'The Art of Poetry No. 2' in The Paris Review (This is a subtle misquote of the one above, where he states he 'has to be' rather than 'would like to be' and 'is not')

Date / Period

1960

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https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4542/the-art-of-poetry-no-2-robert-fro…

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