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"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
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"Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically."
Writing
"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
Attention
"Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about."
Energy
"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
Community
"Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English."
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"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."
Poetry
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
Poems
"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts."
Writing
"The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity."
Creativity
"There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring."
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"The real safety net of life is community, family and nature."
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"We are members of the Church of Christ."
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"There is nothing quite so comforting like being part of a community."
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"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."
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"There is something wrong when a brother or sister becomes alienated from the rest of their family, so there is something wrong when Christians refuse to have anything to do with their fellow Christians. God wants us to live this Christian life together."
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"If you can establish yourself in the community as a giver, those people with whom you associate yourself will extend your branding far beyond you."
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"Cooperate expression of your church life means a lot."
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"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."
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"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."
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"The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money."
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