Peter Gizzi Quotes

• To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

  Peter Gizzi

  Honest, Being Honest, Easy

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• So often we measure
  by what is false.
  We should measure
  by what is barely legible
  barely in our dailiness.
  It is the invisible that doesn't lie
  the invisible through which
  we see ourselves finally
  on a back street in the world.

  Peter Gizzi

  Lying, World, Invisible

  Peter Gizzi (2007). “The Outernationale”, p.90, Wesleyan University Press

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• With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler

  Peter Gizzi

  Simple

  Peter Gizzi (2008). “The Outernationale”, p.45, Wesleyan University Press

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• I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.

  Peter Gizzi

  Bewilderment

  Interview with Robert N. Casper, poems.com. 2007.

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• The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.

  Peter Gizzi

  Important, Astonishment, Fields

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