I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

- Selima Hill

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

- Selima Hill

When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

- Selima Hill

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

- Selima Hill

What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who…

- Selima Hill

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

- Selima Hill

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsess…

- Selima Hill

There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

- Selima Hill

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

- Selima Hill