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" I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing. "
Robin Coste Lewis
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" Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music. "
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" I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet. "
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" Toni Morrison was a big influence on my work since I was a teenager, what she did with English. I joke that I think she speaks 20 Englishes simultaneously, that she knows how to do that. "
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" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "
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" I think that if someone told me I could have been a visual artist, I might have been a visual artist instead. And if I'd known I could have done art history, I would have done that. But I just didn't know. "
Robin Coste Lewis
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" Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives. "
Robin Coste Lewis
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" I don't want to waste my readers' time ever. My readers are very important to me. "
Robin Coste Lewis
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" Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air. "
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