As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem … - Robert Hayden

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I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

Robert Hayden

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

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Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

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We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

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I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.

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[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality. . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

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This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

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Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

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