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Suggest Revision: When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
 
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Suggest Revision: When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
 
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Suggest Revision: When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.
 
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Suggest Revision: While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us.
 
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Suggest Revision: As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
 
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Suggest Revision: Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
 
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Suggest Revision: Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
 
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Suggest Revision: I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
 
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Suggest Revision: I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
 
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Suggest Revision: I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.
 
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