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"Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana."
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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."
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"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."
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"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."
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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
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"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."
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"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."
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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."
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"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."
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"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."
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"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."
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"The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves."
Society
"Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana."
Imagination
"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
Poems
"In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country."
Religion
"I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around?"
People
"I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours."
Study
"My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself."
Focus
"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
College
"Our literature is in great shape."
Literature
"Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves."
Government
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