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Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.

Richard Hugo's Popular Quotes

You are someone and you have a right to your life.

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Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

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I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

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Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

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Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

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A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

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Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

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