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“I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.”

Quote by Joan Larkin

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Joan Larkin, born in 1939, is an accomplished Irish poet known for her profound emotions and unique style. Her poetry delves into themes such as personal identity, historical memory, and the female experience. more

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“Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.”

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“I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.”

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“Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.”

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“My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.”

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“There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.”

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“I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.”

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“I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.”

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