Writer Quotes by Alison Hawthorne Deming

8 Writer quotes by Alison Hawthorne Deming

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Deming’s nature‑infused, reflective voice appears in these eight brief quotes, offering a quick taste of her thoughtful, environmentally aware narrative.

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I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

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I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I…

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I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing…

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I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe…

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As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into…

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Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the…

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A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I…

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Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested…

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I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.

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I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of…

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I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep…

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I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

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The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

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As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the…

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Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

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I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and…

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I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

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Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor…

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I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need…

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I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

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