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“I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.”

Quote by Denise Duhamel

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Denise Duhamel is a renowned American poet, born on June 13, 1961. Her poetry is celebrated for its unique style and profound emotional expression. Duhamel's work covers a wide range of themes, including family, love, nature, and social issues. more

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“As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.”

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“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.”

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“I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.”

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“Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.”

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“The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.”

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“Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.”

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“The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes.”

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“My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."”

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“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.”

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“I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.”

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