“If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.” IfsWorldFeelsMadeFeelingsNaturalReligiousEmpathyConnectionsDepthNatural WorldReligious ExperienceDeep Feeling Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.” FeelsFactsSeemsCreaturesComplicatedConfusedMonstrous Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.” IfsNeedsFeelsWritingTryingHumansHuman BeingsIgnoranceBalanceDiscoveryPerpetualInner Life Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.” WayFeelsHumansMomentsHuman BeingsParticularDiscoveryConcernPoetry IsDiscovering Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I'm interested in thinking about how are we contributing to the culture, what we can write that might help us deepen the culture, make us more reflective, make us more empathetic, make us feel our connectedness in other ways.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingHelpingMightCultureContributingConnectednessEmpathetic Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice.” FeelsShouldVoiceTermSituationPlanetsPoetObligation Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners.” WayFeelsWritingYearsWantedSocialOne ThingTeachingPartnersEngagementSparesSpare Time Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
