“I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.” ThinkingWorldNeedsWritingStillsI CanFeelingsGrowingChangedResponsibleWork OutDenyGrowing OldGrowing OlderThings Have Changed Author:Denise Duhamel
“I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.” WayFeelsStillsHeardVersesFree Verse Author:Denise Duhamel
“I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.” PeopleKindStillsBookPlayWantedSongI RealizedBreathing Author:Denise Duhamel
“While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published.” StillsWinningWishPatientMagazinesUrgesPrizeFrantic Author:Denise Duhamel
