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I know no good way to live and I can’t stop getting lost in my thoughts, my ancient forests …. You ask: how does a man rise or fall in this life? The fisherman’s song flows deep under the river.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Writing free verse, it’s hard to know exactly when a line has the feel or rhythm that you want. It’s hard to describe, though you know it when you feel it. For me, it’s often about gracefulness. I want graceful lines and graceful sentences. I try to write very simply. The vocabulary is simple, the sentences tend to be quite conventional—subject, ve
... See moreJoe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
How much space for remembering is there in a day? How much should there be? I think about this in my poetry. I don’t want to be a nostalgist. Yet I feed on memory, need it to make poems, the art that is made of the stuff I have: my life and the world around me.
Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir
The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature
