Bears Quote by Matthew Zapruder

It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be something vaguely…

— Matthew Zapruder

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter and composer,…

— Matthew Zapruder

My own experience as a reader and writer has been that the more I read, and the more I live, the more different "types"…

— Matthew Zapruder

Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that…

— Matthew Zapruder

Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread, into some…

— Matthew Zapruder

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what…

— Matthew Zapruder

I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and expresses it…

— Matthew Zapruder

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean…

— Matthew Zapruder

If freedom in the imagination is a privilege, it's one I believe everyone should have, as a basic human right. I also believe that…

— Matthew Zapruder

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the…

— Matthew Zapruder