Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. - Raymond Carver
And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.
- Raymond Carver
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that. - Raymond Carver
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets? - Raymond Carver
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar. - Raymond Carver
It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. - Raymond Carver
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it. - Raymond Carver
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. - Raymond Carver
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from. - Raymond Carver
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk. - Raymond Carver
You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.
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