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Alive Quote by Alex Lemon

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“Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.”

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I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

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I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to…

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The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts…

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Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

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I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the…

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My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of…

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The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of…

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“I can be black magic Or boring as hell.”

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I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

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Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music,…

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I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with…

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Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way…

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

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