I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
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The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
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