In any art, but especially in writing, you have to be totally possessed by it if you are to keep going in spite of any circumstances.
Joseph Brodsky, via Man Is Not a Rock – The Baffler.
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Neil Gaiman (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Really, he thought, “if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?”
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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When you live in a rapidly moving swirl, you can only view your surroundings with a glance. Poetry requires us to slow down, to take time to pause.
— Naomi Shihab Nye, Academy of American Poets Chancellor
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