Denise Duhamel Quotes
Top 8 wise famous quotes and sayings by Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.
My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."
Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.