Anxiety Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us -…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

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

— Alison Hawthorne Deming