Pat Mora Quotes

#1. I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

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#2. Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

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#3. It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.

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#4. When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

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#5. I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books.

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#6. If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make. It's important to be able to say, "You know, I read the most wonderful poem the other day. Let me tell you about it."

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#7. Writers are always diverse on the inside.

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#8. I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

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#9. I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset.

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#10. I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

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#11. I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work.

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#12. I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

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#13. Nd I smile
and know
why people write music and paint and dance, lifted as if they can fly,
because this ache
crashing inside
needs to be free.
sometimes, love
becomes a melody
others hum for years.

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#14. I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

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