Peter Meinke quotes
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“Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.”
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“If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.”
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“The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last.”
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“I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young.”
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“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
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Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.117, Hachette UK
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“Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.”
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“A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.”
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“When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,”
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