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Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.”

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Alison Hawthorne Deming

Alison Hawthorne Deming is an accomplished American poet, born in 1946. Her poetry is characterized by its focus on natural themes and local history, and has garnered widespread acclaim from readers. more

“I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and I thought, "I wonder why these images are abrading against each other. I wonder what happens if put them in a poem and explore them." I'm trying to learn something every time I write a poem.”

Ifs Writing Trying Mind Happens Wonder Particular Discovery Writing Poems

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.”

Ifs Needs Feels Writing Trying Humans Human Beings Ignorance Balance Discovery Perpetual Inner Life

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in the formal aspects of the poem. The emotions are there in the way the senses gather things into the poem.”

Way Mind Body Emotion Expression Aspect Instruments Senses Helpful Poetry Is Formal Musicality

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.”

Way Feels Humans Moments Human Beings Particular Discovery Concern Poetry Is Discovering

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming