I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Marguerite Young
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Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. -
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. -
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem. -
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
More quotes by Marguerite Young
- All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
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