Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.
You are someone and you have a right to your life. - Richard Hugo
You are someone and you have a right to your life.
- Richard Hugo
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. - Richard Hugo
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of troub… - Richard Hugo
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of troub…
I think it's better if you write poems that look like you. - Richard Hugo
I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.
Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love. - Richard Hugo
Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.
Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say. - Richard Hugo
Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.
Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. … - Richard Hugo
Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. …
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. - Richard Hugo
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.
Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed. - Richard Hugo
Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.
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