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I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Alphabet Anyone Anything Changes Conviction Ever Fact Fail Freeing In Fact Insurrection Less Lower Matter Matters Much Poetry Really Revolution Saves Secret Stakes Than Think Tiny Tremendously You I Think

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I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Find Go Need Periods Something Through Until World Write Writing I Write

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I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Also Back Because Bend Break Conscious Culture Idea Interested Itself Machines People Reading Resistance

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I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Act Continuing Face Hope Think Truth I Think

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That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Building Need Point Right Writing You

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I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've got a fever.

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Fever Go Got Like Months Out Season Sudden Then Write

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I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Make Me Sense Things Write I Write

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Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Activism Acts Change Form Happen Historical Lousy Maybe Much Next Number Often One Or Two Poem Poems Poetry Point Political Pretty Put Really Rebellion Revolution Slim Started Times Two Uprising Would You

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I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

~Daphne Gottlieb

Topics: Across Beautiful Elation First First Time Girlfriend Had He His Kisses Lived Longing Love Made Madly Me Mentioned Mix Never Street Suddenly Tapes Time Who Year

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Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

~Daphne Gottlieb

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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