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Inspirationexpand_moreAmerican poetry is afflicted by modesty of ambition.
Michael Wiegers
The act of poetry most often begins and ends in solitude.
Grandfather advised me: learn a trade. I learned to sit at a desk.
Art is a way for the mind to master the body, even if it is not one’s own.
There’s this cool magazine online. They let people read it for free.
The Interests of a writer and the interests of his readers are never...
You sounded so confident about the Old Masters and I loved you for that.
She had boyfriends before she met him. Well, not really boyfriends.
Our crowns are made of dead hair and get swept out with the trash.
A little music. An empty bottle of whiskey. It’s a little like cheating.
All down my street the new fathers beat the kingness out of the kings.
She holds her smile like a note sustained at the end of a phrase.
Words appear like the answer to a question I hadn’t yet asked.
A little music. An empty bottle of whiskey. It’s a little like cheating.
The Warsaw Pact invaded in 1968 and soon banned Hrabal’s work.
The legendary author Robert Stone, in the words of his friends.
She’d lifted the plot from a TV show she’d watched the night before.
I was bold, even reckless, in what I wrote, and in how I wrote it.
An eye trained only for darkness makes for a lesser path, in art as in life.
Kids were just let out of school to spend the summer running in packs.
Last year alone, every American choked to death on a red balloon.
Carol Edgarian
We have mysterious inclinations. No one can explain it to us.
The grass is always greener in the cemetery, was a joke I made to Jed.
This has been a good day. First the milestone of getting to page 300.
“It means,” Stoner said again, and could not finish what he had begun.
