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"Interview with a Poet."

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You are a poet?

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Yes, I am.

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How do you know?

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[LAUGHTER] I have
written a poem.

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[LAUGHTER]

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When you wrote the poem
it means you were a poet.

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But now?

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I shall write
another poem someday.

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Then you may be again a poet.

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But how will you know
that it really is a poem.

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It will be just
like the last one.

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[LAUGHTER]

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In that case, it will
certainly not be a poem.

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A poem exists only once it
cannot be the same again.

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I mean it will be just as good.

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But you cannot mean that.

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The goodness of a
poem exists only once

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and does not depend on
you but on circumstances.

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I imagine the circumstances
will be the same.

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If that is your opinion,
you never were a poet

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and never will be.

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Why then do you
think you are a poet?

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Well, I really do not know.

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And, who are you?

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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