Quotes by Elaine Equi

Elaine Equi

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.

Book

Photography

Writing

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.

Opposites

Wish

Writing

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.

Amphetamines

Drug

Opiates

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.

Couple

Together

Writing

I have a lot of respect for advertising. If I didn’t teach and could go back in time, I might try and become a copywriter. I especially like print ads that combine a photo with a short caption or tag line.

Lines

Might

Trying

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.

Complaining

Gossip

Ideas

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.

Eggs

Firsts

Looks

I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don’t want that. I’m terrible at multitasking and find it hard to believe that no one protests this general trend of using the rhetoric of self actualization to sell you faster and faster phones and computers, BlackBerrys, etc.

Believe

Philosophy

Phones

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

Feels

Relief

Welcome

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.

Minimalist

Sense Of Humor

Thinking

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Abstract

Amphetamines

Atmosphere

Balance

Believe

Book

Children

Complaining

Contrast

Couple

Crazy

Different

Drug

Earth

Eggs

Endeavor

Esoteric

Essence

Feels

Firsts

Function

Gadgets

Gossip

Ideas

Intellectual

Interest

Invisible

Lines

Looks

Machines

Might

Minimalist

Needs

New York

Notebook

Opiates

Opposites

Order

Past

People

Philosophy

Phones

Photography

Rap

Real

Relief

Sacred

School

Sense Of Humor

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Quotes by Elaine Equi

Elaine Equi

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.

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.

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.

I have a lot of respect for advertising. If I didn’t teach and could go back in time, I might try and become a copywriter. I especially like print ads that combine a photo with a short caption or tag line.

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.

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.

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

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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