the chances of it going somewhere else seem to be increased. If the poem kind of starts in the middle of some psychic nightmare, it usually is just gonna remain there. So the reason I begin my poems clearly is that I want to get away from that clarity and use the beginning of the poem as a kind of springboard into more ambiguous, more demanding (territory). [--Billy Collins]
from The Wire: the 'convivial' poet
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