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 less money and fewer people involved. You just let a book of poems trickle out in the world, and it finds its own people. Novels are much harder, and you don't think you should have to do some of the things you're made to do.
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…
- 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
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 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.
There is such a shelter in each other. - Nick Laird
There is such a shelter in each other.
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