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“My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.”

Needs Giving Lost Memories My Own Loss Records Journey Poet Becoming Losing Sugar Aunt Give And Take Memory Loss Lost Ones Losing Her

Author:Natasha Trethewey

“Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.”

Kind Doe Matter Poetry Poet Losing Concerned No Matter What Great Men Poetry Is Betray Avoiding Doing Nothing Nouns

Book:Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Source: Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.”

Courses Found Process Creative Poet Losing Sitting Screens Staring Crucial Factories Creative Process Temperament Nursing Strolling Indolence Sofas Grove Reverie

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting, and tightens up what is left. Lazy poets never carry their early drafts far enough: some even believe that virtue lies in the original doodle scrawled on the back of an envelope.”

Believe Art Enough Lying Left Virtue Magic Poet Losing Originals Lazy Remove Irrelevant Envelopes

Book:Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems

Source: Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems

“I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.”

Believe I Believe Poet Return Paper Losing Flesh Cease Soviet Citizenship

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.”

Thinking Giving Littles Enough Might Today Young Too Much Effects Danger Identity College Poet Losing Happenings Importance Mark Busy Work Out Great Men Hats Juice Too Busy Rushing Lecturing

Author:Conrad Aiken