“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”
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Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.”
Source: Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios
Source: Claiming Breath
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
“A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.”
“The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.”