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And I know Im supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my

And I know Im supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books… and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I cant quite muster the guilt anymore. – Julianna Baggott

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Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels. – Julianna Baggott

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What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists. – Julianna Baggott

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Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life. – Julianna Baggott

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih

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To have great poets there must be great audiences too. – Walt Whitman

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