Able Quote by Joan Larkin

Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.

— Joan Larkin

Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward…

— Joan Larkin

People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are…

— Joan Larkin

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn…

— Joan Larkin

It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever…

— Joan Larkin

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

— Joan Larkin

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without…

— Joan Larkin

Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going…

— Joan Larkin

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

— Joan Larkin

After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled…

— Joan Larkin

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

— Joan Larkin