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Selima Hill Quotes:

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Ocupation: Poet

Life: b. October 13, 1945

Birthday: October 13

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Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

Topics: Talent, Obsession, Invisible

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I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

Topics: Art, Art Is, Values

I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.

Topics: Truth, Selfish, Steps

The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

Topics: Success, Mistake, Guessing, Exaggerating

There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

Topics: Space, Gaps, Sometimes

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

Topics: Space, Bigs, Poetry Is

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced...

Topics: Thinking, Voice, Giving

When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

Topics: Rushing, People, Scary, Rushing In

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

Topics: Thinking, Poetry, Faces

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

Topics: Real, Insecurity, Paper, Real Person

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

Topics: Communication, Writing, People

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

Topics: Integrity, Fall, Giving

What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?

Topics: Dream, Moving, Writing, Looking At The Past, Stiff Neck

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