What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.
With an age difference comes a great gap in cultural references, and so on. It's not all about race and gender. It interests me that, as you get olde… - Nick Laird
With an age difference comes a great gap in cultural references, and so on. It's not all about race and gender. It interests me that, as you get olde…
- Nick Laird
Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give something a name has always b… - Nick Laird
Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give something a name has always b…
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more fully than other art… - Nick Laird
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more fully than other art…
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around and… - Nick Laird
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around and…
Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that so… - Nick Laird
Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that so…
The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier, because there's l… - Nick Laird
The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is slightly easier, because there's l…
A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see. - Nick Laird
A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.
The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way. - Nick Laird
The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.
Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never write quite a… - Nick Laird
Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never write quite a…
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