Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow.
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.Rita Dove
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
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What writing does is to reveal.
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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
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