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I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of.

~Brenda Hillman

Topics: Concerned Course Family First Flowers Found Garden Good Grateful Later Mother Old Our Out Poem Praised Pretty Pretty Good Proud Seemed Silly Something Wrote Year

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I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

~Brenda Hillman

Topics: Always Contains Exists Figure God Matter Out Spirit Trying Whether Why

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The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.

~Brenda Hillman

Topics: Becoming Experience Feelings Images Inner Kind Kinds Know Language Mainly Offer Offers Outer Poetry Powerful Things Timeless You

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The techniques of contemporary poetry are probably the techniques of your daily life. I don't know a single person who goes into the grocery store and thinks in complete sentences. We often think in fragments, we think in little lists, we think in non-sequiturs, we think in feelings that may not match up with each other.

~Brenda Hillman

Topics: Complete Contemporary Daily Daily Life Each Feelings Fragments Goes Grocery Grocery Store Know Life Lists Little Match May Often Other Person Poetry Sentences Single Single Person Store Techniques Think Thinks Up Who Your

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You go to a poem to get the mystery - and sometimes you go to get more confused.

~Brenda Hillman

Topics: Confused Get Go More Mystery Poem Sometimes You

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I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well.

~Brenda Hillman

Topics: Barbara Blake Canon Guest Influences Keats Living Love Many Personal Poets Well Whose Work I Love

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 27th, 1951

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