Selima Hill Quotes
There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.
If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.
When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!
Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.
