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Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others.

Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.

I've been accused of darkness
by my inner light.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.

What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

Alison Hawthorne Deming quotes: I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.