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“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control... Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”

“ To end on hope: collectively, in what ways do you feel we can effectually repair and improve our humanity ?”

Her response:

Make room for each other. I think we live in a world—I don’t think, I know—we live in a world that keeps spaces so narrow, and I think that writing poetry—the arts—is the biggest lane of all. That’s why I love being a poet; th

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With idleness comes godliness.

“The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day.”

“There’s a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting,” from Slowness by Milan Kundera.

Grow your own flowers and give them away to everyone you meet. You’re right: the earth is not very fertile, people are not always grateful, flowers eventually die. But do you still see the point of it all? Do you see the beauty of the gesture?