Quotes by Joan Larkin

Joan Larkin

After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I’ve been teaching for a long time. More than four decades.

Moving

Teaching

Writing

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

Book

Children

Writing

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don’t feel as if I have it.

Fiction

Stories

Writing

I love that people want to know about poetry. It’s one of the ways of keeping alive.

Alive

People

Want

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn’t have access to.

Jobs

People

Thinking

I think we’re always most interested in the things we’re doing right now.

Doing Right

Right Now

Thinking

I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

Art

Stuff

Years

I’m much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I’ve gotten very surgical about poems.

Capable

Cutting

Expanding

I’m trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.

Blessing

Evil

Ideas

It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you’re saying. I’m still in a long learning process.

Long

Process

Vision

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Children

Community

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Different

Doing Right

Evil

Expanding

Facets

Fiction

Firsts

Giving

Grateful

Growing

Guru

Ideas

Imaginative

Inspiration

Jobs

Long

Lows

Movement

Moving

People

Pieces

Poet

Process

Regret

Right Now

Roots

Sound

Stories

Stuff

Taken

Teaching

Thinking

Tree

Trying

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Want

Writing

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Quotes by Joan Larkin

Joan Larkin

After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I’ve been teaching for a long time. More than four decades.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don’t feel as if I have it.

I love that people want to know about poetry. It’s one of the ways of keeping alive.

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn’t have access to.

I think we’re always most interested in the things we’re doing right now.

I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

I’m much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I’ve gotten very surgical about poems.

I’m trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.

It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you’re saying. I’m still in a long learning process.

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