Selima Hill Quotes

• The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

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  Success, Mistake, Guessing

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• There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

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  Break Through, Space, Gaps

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• I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.

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  Truth, Selfish, Naked

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• Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

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  Talent, Obsession, Invisible

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• If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

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  Communication, Writing, People

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• I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

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  Real, Insecurity, Paper

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• All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

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  Thinking, Poetry, Faces

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• I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

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  Art, Art Is, Cracked

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• I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.

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  Thinking, Voice, Giving

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• An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

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  Integrity, Fall, Giving

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• Poetry is a big space and I love it.

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  Space, Bigs, Poetry Is

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• When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

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  Rushing, People, Scary

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• What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?

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  Dream, Moving, Writing

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