Stephen Dobyns Quotes about Writing

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Taken, Writing, Emotional

I write poems to find out why I write them

Writing

Stephen Dobyns (2013). “Winter's Journey”, p.81, Copper Canyon Press

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

Stephen Dobyns

Writing, Sound, Hook

"Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.

Stephen Dobyns

Writing, Long, Poetry

Stephen Dobyns (2011). “Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry”, p.198, Macmillan

I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn't read like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is so well written and funny.

Stephen Dobyns

Writing, School, College

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Stephen Dobyns Quotes about Writing

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