Cate Marvin Quotes

• The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

  Cate Marvin

  Book, Track, World

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I am like a table
  that eats its own legs off
  because it’s fallen
  in love with the floor.

  Cate Marvin

  Legs, Tables, Fallen

  Cate Marvin (2007). “Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems”

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• It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.

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  Motivation, Writing, Character

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

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  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.

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  Laughter, Nice, Inspiration

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

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  Important, Landscape, Imagery

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• To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.

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  Arte, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

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  Ideas, People, Readership

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

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  Mind, Dramatic, Monologues

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

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  Reason, Genre, Term

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• The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"

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  Plot, Balls, Fiction

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.

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  Important, Doe, Coke

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

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  Challenges, Important, Matter

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• I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

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  Argument, Poetic, Strikes

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Me encanta enseñar a escribir poesía. Los alumnos vienen a clase pensando que la poesía tiene que ser de una manera, y luego salen habiendo creado piezas totalmente originales, que -literalmente- nunca se han hecho antes.

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  Teaching, Writing, Thinking

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there's always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student's poem is terrible or quite wonderful.

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  Thinking, Assessment, Elements

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

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  Believe, Hard Work, Revision

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Como me levanto tarde, mi día suele ser corto. Soy mucho más activa por las tardes, durante las cuales leo, escribo, bordo, fumo, envío correos electrónicos y me desespero por la decisión que tomé el pasado junio de poner en la calle mi televisor y mi reproductor de DVD porque no trabajaba lo suficiente.

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  Writing, Player, June

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

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  Differences, Ears, Should

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• I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.

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  País, Escribir, Pensar

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.

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  Identity, Manhattan, Unattractive

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

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  Fiction, Jackpot, Feels

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• New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

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  New York, Ciudades, Gente

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

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  University Professors, Careers, Pay

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

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  Growing Up, Father, Hate

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