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Peter Gizzi Quotes

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

Peter Gizzi
Honest, Being Honest, Easy

So often we measure by what is false. We should measure by what is barely legible barely in our dailiness. It is the invisible that doesn't lie the invisible through which we see ourselves finally on a back street in the world.

Peter Gizzi
Lying, World, Invisible
Peter Gizzi (2007). “The Outernationale”, p.90, Wesleyan University Press

With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler

Peter Gizzi
Simple
Peter Gizzi (2008). “The Outernationale”, p.45, Wesleyan University Press

I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.

Peter Gizzi
Bewilderment
Interview with Robert N. Casper, poems.com. 2007.

The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.

Peter Gizzi
Important, Astonishment, Fields

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