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Cate Marvin Quotes: One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.
         

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.


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When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.



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I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.



The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.



Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.



I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.



Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.



One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.

One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.



I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.



I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.



I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.





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