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> [At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/at-the-heart-of-my-life-is-the-idea-that-i-don-t-ever-want-anything/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/lucie-brock-broido-29215_change_at-the-heart-of-my-life-is-the-idea-that_301885.jpg)

## More by Lucie Brock-Broido

> [Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in the woods,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/something-i-have-authority-on-is-animal-rights-if-i-were-not-already/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/at-the-heart-of-my-life-is-the-idea-that-i-don-t-ever-want-anything/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [“From 'Periodic Table of Elements': A girl ago, a girlhood gone like a phial of ether \| Thrown on fire--just \| A little jump…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/from-periodic-table-of-elements-a-girl-ago-a-girlhood-gone-like-a/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/i-think-the-reason-i-ve-published-so-few-books-is-that-i-have-a/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [“There she was, the mother of me, like a lit plinth, Heavenly, though I was reared to find this kind Of visitation impractical; she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/there-she-was-the-mother-of-me-like-a-lit-plinth-heavenly-though-i/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/confession-may-well-be-a-dirty-word-in-poetry/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/i-want-a-poem-which-is-made-of-compression-passion-precision-symmetry/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/that-s-what-interests-me-in-poetry-that-withholding-that-white-space/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/i-am-fascinated-with-criminal-law-because-it-is-as-rigorous-as-a-poem/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics. Politically, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/let-me-just-say-that-the-politics-that-i-have-are-never-the-politics/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [Every thing is changing every minute.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/every-thing-is-changing-every-minute/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/i-think-american-is-very-democratic-in-allowing-different-hues-of/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [“One lung, smaller, congested with rose smoke. The other, filled with a swarm of massive sentimentia.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/one-lung-smaller-congested-with-rose-smoke-the-other-filled-with-a/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/i-wanted-many-of-the-poems-to-have-long-legs-at-first-i-was-calling/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

> [I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucie-brock-broido/i-came-to-poetry-because-i-felt-i-couldn-t-live-properly-in-the-real/)

[Lucie Brock-Broido](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucie-brock-broido/)

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