It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.
I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.
I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.
I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.
I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.
I like the way the prose and poetry interact.
I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.
I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.
Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.
I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.
I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.
I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.
I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.
I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.
I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.
Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.
When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.
I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.
My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.
Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.
I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.
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