Young
Young
writing loss years
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
thinking hands voice
I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
heart soul faces
Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
wedding-day gowns strange
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
believe desire obsession
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
groundhog-day rainy-day weather
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
trying way becoming
I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.
world way just-being
Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.
spiritual thinking goal
I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.
thinking anxiety trying
If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.
political degrees poetry-is
All poetry is political, to some degree.
choices
All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.
team reality thinking
I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.
home florida years
It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even more excited that it will be taking place in my home state of Florida. Regardless of where my rowing career takes me, I am sure to be in attendance in Sarasota in 2017.