Elaine Equi Quotes

• I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

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  Thinking, Sense Of Humor, Minimalist

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• What I like best about teaching is that it allows me to explore my own interest with a group.

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  Teaching, Interest

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• The earth has always supported me in all my endeavors. I trust it.

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  Earth, Endeavor

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• In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

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  Needs, Machines, Function

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• I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.

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  Writing, Opposites, Wish

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• I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.

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  Eggs, Looks, Firsts

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• There are fewer and fewer philosophies that everyone subscribes to. We don't seem to have as many beliefs in common as we used to. Also, we interact much more online. We have all these gadgets to help us manage different aspects of our lives.

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  Philosophy, Different, Gadgets

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• In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.

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  Order, Contrast

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• I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to gossip. And you don't have to explain why you're in such a bad mood when your work isn't going well.

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  Ideas, Gossip, Complaining

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• I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it could even be interactive. Being a lover of photography, I especially like the idea that you could include lots of pictures - full-color pictures - with your writing. That to me is exciting! We'll all have to stay tuned to see what develops.

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  Photography, Book, Writing

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• The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.

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  Sacred, Email, Texting

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• To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.

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  Crazy, Book, School

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• When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."

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  Real, Thinking, Machines

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• I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.

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  Notebook, Children, School

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• I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.

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  Relief, Welcome, Feels

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• I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

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  Thinking, Intellectual, Esoteric

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• The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).

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  Balance, Invisible, Abstract

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• I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I enjoy the slowness of the whole process. It makes me more deliberate about everything I say.

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  Book, Writing, Essence

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• I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

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  Drug, Opiates, Amphetamines

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• Nunca me ha gustado la filosofía de que puedes tenerlo todo y serlo todo y que algo va mal si no quieres eso. Se me da fatal la multitarea y me cuesta creer que nadie proteste contra esta tendencia general de utilizar la retórica de la autorrealización para venderte teléfonos y ordenadores cada vez más rápidos, BlackBerrys, etc.

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  Philosophy, Believe, Phones

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• When I shut off the verbal, I like to escape into the visual.

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  Visuales

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• In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.

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  New York, Ideas, People

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• Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.

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  Vices, Students, Sometimes

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• I don't write every day, but if I go more than a couple of months without writing, I begin to get a little nervous. I usually have bursts of poems. Five or six come together and then I slack off and want to do something else.

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  Couple, Writing, Together

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• It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.

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  Writing, People, Atmosphere

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