But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet…

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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved...

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved...

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a...

Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a...

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and...

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same...

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what...

The desire to write grows with writing.

The desire to write grows with writing.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take...

How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take...

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce...

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce...

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When...

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When...

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl...

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.