Nick Laird Quotes
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The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.
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The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you finally say it, and you get it as perfect as you can make it. Then you're forced to babble freestyle.
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We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.
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I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.
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In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.
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I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.
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You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.
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When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.
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There is such a shelter in each other.
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Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that something is ready to send out and I never have been. Part of the problem is that as soon as a poem is finished, it stops being all that interesting to me.