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And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

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Robert Hass

The birds are silent in the woods.
Just wait: soon enough
You will be quiet too

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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

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Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

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Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

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Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

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After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

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