Frederick Seidel Quotes

#1. I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.

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#2. You need a danger to be safe in.

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#3. Too much is almost enough

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#4. Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

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#5. Joe Lelyveld told me just now that Gandhi and Mussolini
Actually met. What an extraordinary thought.

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#6. I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

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#7. I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are so well made that they're achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.

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#8. July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.
It is beautiful that they have to disappear.
It's like the time you said I love you madly.
That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.

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#9. Write beautifully what people don't want to hear.

Frederick Seidel