“All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.” Quote by Selima Hill
“When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!” PeopleFirstsScaryRecognitionHidingRushingRushing In Author:Selima Hill
“I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.” ThinkingGivingVoiceSilence Author:Selima Hill
“There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.” SometimesSpaceBreakGapsSoarBreak Through Author:Selima Hill
“The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.” SuccessUsedMistakeUsed To BeMaking MistakesRecklessDaydreamingObsessiveGuessingContradictingExaggerating Author:Selima Hill
“I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.” WholeTruthEnjoyStepsSelfishNakedPretendingBloodyShowersHearted Author:Selima Hill
“I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.” ArtValuesArt IsCracked Author:Selima Hill
“What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?” PeopleWritingDreamPastMovingProcessNecksBenevolentLooking At The PastStiff Neck Author:Selima Hill
“Potential audiences are real people found in real places.” PeopleRealFoundAudience Author:Suzanne Lacy
“To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.” HumansChildrenHandsHuman BeingsConditionsParticularModelsDrawingHuman ConditionAdorationOld Woman Author:Frederick Franck