Believe Quote by Cate Marvin

“I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.” quote by Cate Marvin — Download Open image

“I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.”

Cate Marvin

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The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always…

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One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.

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One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with…

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I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

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Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic…

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I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

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“I think with my blood.”

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I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

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I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

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I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a…

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I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.

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Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become…

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