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I’m an opportunist—I always hope I’ll get material out of any activity. I never know where writing is going to come from

— Louise Glück Interview with 'Poets & Writers (2014)

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The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.

Meadowlands (1996)

The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.

Ararat (1990)

Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.

Descending Figure (1980)

I caution you as I was never cautioned
you will never let go, you will never be satiated.

The Seven Ages (2001)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Suman Pokhrel

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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