Denise Duhamel Quotes

• I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.

  Denise Duhamel

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Karla Huston, www.smartishpace.com. 2004.

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• I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.

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  Writing, Trying, Topics

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• Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.

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  Would Be, Clubs, Woody

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• Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.

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  Years, Technique, Form

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• Not that a poem can "hurt" someone the same way a physical blow can or even a mean remark can...I just felt unsure that my tone would be taken the right way and/or unsure of my own writing, that I couldn't maintain the tone I wanted.

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  Hurt, Taken, Writing

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• As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.

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  Photography, Teenager, Writing

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• My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

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  Self, Advice, Chill

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• After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

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  Term, Skip, Publish

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• Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

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  Writing, Essence, Forever

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• The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes.

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  Writing, Mean, Forever

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• While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published.

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  Winning, Wish, Magazines

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• Me encanta ir al cine, incluso en la era de las películas a la carta y Netflix. Cuando estás en una sala de cine, nadie puede localizarte por teléfono u otros medios.

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  Mean, Phones, Netflix

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• I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor, collaboration, visual poetry, confessional poetry, gender, and the body, as well as tributes to Edward Field and Albert Goldbarth. I felt at home on all of them - most poets straddle more than one school.

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  Home, School, Ideas

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• If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't.

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  Writing, Please, My Friends

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• The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

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  Writing, Community, Bob

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• Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

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  Art, Valentine, College

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• Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button. I have poems that I haven't sent out for publication, mostly based on political/social issues.

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  Years, Issues, Political

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• I had no idea, when I was writing early on, that my poems would be published or read by anyone, never mind people I knew or would meet. I just wrote urgently - naïvely, I suppose, looking back.

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  Escritura, Ideas, Personas

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• I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

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  Writing, Thinking, Work Out

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• I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

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  Way, Heard, Feels

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• I am open to squeezing in whatever I can in this wonderful life. Instead of asking, "Is that all there is?" I seem, lately, to be always saying, "Wow!"

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  Asking, Wow, Wonderful

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• What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day, no matter what - and the joy that writing has given me.

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  Writing, Dedication, Joy

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• I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.

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  Writing, Suffering, Lucky

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• I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

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  Song, Book, Breathing

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• I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.

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  Fashion, People, Comedian

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