Brenda Hillman Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Brenda Hillman:

I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of.
~Brenda Hillman


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I’m always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.
~Brenda Hillman


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The techniques of contemporary poetry are probably the techniques of your daily life. I don’t know a single person who goes into the grocery store and thinks in complete sentences. We often think in fragments, we think in little lists, we think in non-sequiturs, we think in feelings that may not match up with each other.
~Brenda Hillman


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I have many influences and poets whose work I love. My personal canon includes Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Baudelaire, Stevens, Duncan and Barbara Guest - and many living poets as well.
~Brenda Hillman


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The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.
~Brenda Hillman


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You go to a poem to get the mystery - and sometimes you go to get more confused.
~Brenda Hillman


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