American Celebrity Quotations | Page 2

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.