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> [I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/i-was-eventually-to-become-one-person-gathered-up-maybe-during-a/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

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## More by Lyn Hejinian

> [A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/a-fragment-is-not-a-fraction-but-a-whole-piece/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [“The sky was packed which by appearing endless seems inevitable. The flag droops straight down. The horse in dry sand walks with a chirping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/the-sky-was-packed-which-by-appearing-endless-seems-inevitable-the/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/the-idea-of-the-person-enters-poetics-where-art-and-reality-or/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/to-some-extent-each-sentence-has-to-be-the-whole-story/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [“A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/a-german-goldsmith-covered-a-bit-of-metal-with-cloth-in-the-14th/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [“Long time lines trail behind every idea, object, person, pet, vehicle, and event.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/long-time-lines-trail-behind-every-idea-object-person-pet-vehicle-and/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [“Writing’s initial situation, its point of origin, is often character­ized and always complicated by opposing impulses in the writer and by a seeming dilemma…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/writing-s-initial-situation-its-point-of-origin-is-often-character/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [Putting facts by the thousands, into the world, the toes take off with an appealing squeak which the thumping heel follows confidentially, the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/putting-facts-by-the-thousands-into-the-world-the-toes-take-off-with/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/people-must-flatter-their-own-eyes-with-their-pathetic-lives-the/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/i-was-eventually-to-become-one-person-gathered-up-maybe-during-a/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/this-poem-is-one-of-a-series-all-of-them-elegiac-in-intention-and/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/the-open-text-often-emphasizes-or-foregrounds-process-either-the/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [“Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/drinking-shirley-temple-with-my-mary-janes-on-let-s-say-that-every/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [“In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a din in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/in-every-country-is-a-word-which-attempts-the-sound-of-cats-to-match/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

> [“Allegories are told with a purpose whose possibility is lost Until a potato-eater appears and eats potatoes ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-hejinian/allegories-are-told-with-a-purpose-whose-possibility-is-lost-until-a/)

[Lyn Hejinian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-hejinian/)

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