- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.
- Almost Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can't just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020