Simone Muench quotes

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.
-- Simone Muench

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I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
-- Simone Muench

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I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was tired of aesthetic wars that weren't productive and were becoming mean-spirited. I was probably overworked as well, so I stopped reading and writing for about a year.
-- Simone Muench

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I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.
-- Simone Muench

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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.