“If it weren't for the Chicagos and Detroits and Toledos, the terrible things would spread out across the whole country and make… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms. — Stephen Dobyns Human beings Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Book Copy Share Image
Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a… — Stephen Dobyns Poet Copy Share Image
Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with… — Stephen Dobyns All kinds Copy Share Image
Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing… — Stephen Dobyns Accepted Copy Share Image
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. — Stephen Dobyns Book Copy Share Image
I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next… — Stephen Dobyns Believe Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others,… — Stephen Dobyns Adolescence Copy Share Image
“The obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was… — Stephen Dobyns Bubonic plague Copy Share Image
These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people… — Stephen Dobyns Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“It's peculiar to eat naked, but not crazy. What's crazy is to shoot yourself. You've got to get these things in perspective.” — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I… — Stephen Dobyns Be good Copy Share Image
“Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Bigger Copy Share Image
There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for… — Stephen Dobyns Men Copy Share Image
“Fill in the blanks, you’d have a novel; keep it short and it’s a play by Beckett.” — Stephen Dobyns Books Copy Share Image
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the… — Stephen Dobyns Anger Copy Share Image
For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has… — Stephen Dobyns Comic Copy Share Image
“When he began to talk about Wyndham, it was almost with relief, as if his purpose in life was to tell that… — Stephen Dobyns Life Copy Share Image
I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before. — Stephen Dobyns Ashamed Copy Share Image
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns Alertness Copy Share Image
I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots… — Stephen Dobyns Anticipate Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Approach Copy Share Image
I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked… — Stephen Dobyns Ariel Copy Share Image
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