"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."

Family, Children, Community, Fact, Jobs

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"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

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"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"Heaven set couples for babies' birth."

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"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."

Society

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

Poems

"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

Poet

"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."

God

"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."

Family

"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."

Art

"We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future."

Time

"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."

Poetry

"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."

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"A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate."

Society