[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident. — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“Wonder, as a point of concern, denies its own consideration. It has the remarkable capacity to hide in the midst of its revelation. Wonder,… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way. — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“I see the world is flat and the map flat that records it, and both page and world speak each other forever. Put a… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“I like the moment of failure that finds us on that line, abandoned of intent, caught in an experience of a different order, stalking… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“Memory is igneous more than ingenious, igneous, and like granite, intrusive, heaved up within oneself, the whole range of one's life, mountains' forbidding height… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
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