Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
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Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us just really busy, really overcommitted.Sharon Olds
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
Sharon Olds
When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
Sharon Olds
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
Sharon Olds
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If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
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Samuel West
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.
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