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Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Growing
Guru
Lows
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I think we're always most interested in the things we're doing right now.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Doing Right
Right Now
Thinking
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Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Community
Imaginative
Poet
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I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Alive
People
Want
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Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.
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Community
Grateful
Teaching
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I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.
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Fiction
Stories
Writing
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I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.
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Capable
Cutting
Expanding
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From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Book
Children
Writing
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I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Jobs
People
Thinking
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I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Blessing
Evil
Ideas
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I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.
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Art
Stuff
Years
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It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.
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Long
Process
Vision
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People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.
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Inspiration
People
Thinking
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Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Firsts
Sound
Trying
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My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Book
Movement
Years
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There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.
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Book
Facets
Pieces
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Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Different
Roots
Sound
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Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.
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Branches
Roots
Tree
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There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.
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Giving
Regret
Writing
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After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Moving
Teaching
Writing
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People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.
Joan Larkin / Poet
Giving
People
Taken
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