"What am I writing for anyway? Is it……" — Selima Hill
"What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?"
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13 Quotes by Selima Hill
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Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent…
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An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives…
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If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to…
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I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.
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All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say…
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When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding.…
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I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced...
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Poetry is a big space and I love it.
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There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort…
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The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being…
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I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or…
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I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.
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