Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will.
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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