Quotes by Lisel Mueller - Page 1

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.
Lisel Mueller / Poet
Grieving
Imaginary
Luxury
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Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
Lisel Mueller / Poet
Language
Wells
Writing
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When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.
Lisel Mueller / Poet
Indifference
Writing
Writing Poems
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Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
Lisel Mueller / Poet
Matter
Memories
Together
Memory
Preserving
Remembering
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Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
Lisel Mueller / Poet
Autobiography
Facts
Writing
Autobiographical
Objective
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Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.
Lisel Mueller / Poet
Doe
Events
Over You
Sane
Time Poetry Me
Private Lives
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How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom: as if what exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious
Lisel Mueller / Poet
Darkness
Light
Order
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When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
Lisel Mueller / Poet
College
Thinking
Writing
Time Poetry Me
Somewhat
Informal
Manner
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I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.
Lisel Mueller / Poet
War
Destroyed
Grandparent
World
World War I
War History World
German
Attic
Imprinted
Reasonably
World War
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I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.
Lisel Mueller / Poet
America
Cities
Sleep
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