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 obsession.
I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be. - Selima Hill
I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.
- 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
When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!
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
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.
I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person. - Selima Hill
I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.
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
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…
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
If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.
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
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.
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
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…
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
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.
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