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Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough…
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Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
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In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
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To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too.…
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I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a…
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Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to…
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I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look…
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Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you…
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The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
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Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never…
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We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
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A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
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As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A…
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The unconscious creates, the ego edits.
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He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors,…
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Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are…
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
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After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's…
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Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.
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The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look,…
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It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany…
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