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Top 20 Cate Marvin Quotes (2025 Update)

Cate Marvin Quote: “There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.”

1. “There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have – quite literally – never been made before.”

2. “I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have – quite literally – never been made before.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.”

3. “Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an “Ohio Poet;” this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.”

4. “I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an “Ohio Poet;” this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there’s always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student’s poem is terrible or quite wonderful.”

5. “I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there’s always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student’s poem is terrible or quite wonderful.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It’s nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word “inspiration” I practically shriek with laughter.”

6. “Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It’s nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word “inspiration” I practically shriek with laughter.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “One cannot have “success” in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I’d have become a lawyer.”

7. “One cannot have “success” in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I’d have become a lawyer.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.”

8. “I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “To think of writing poetry as a “career” is not only ridiculous, it’s dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.”

9. “To think of writing poetry as a “career” is not only ridiculous, it’s dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I’m much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn’t getting enough work done.”

10. “Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I’m much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn’t getting enough work done.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.”

11. “One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from – as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they’d turn limp and colorless.”

12. “New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from – as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they’d turn limp and colorless.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.”

13. “I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “I consider poetry my vocation, not my “career.” My career is as a university professor; that’s what pays the bills.”

14. “I consider poetry my vocation, not my “career.” My career is as a university professor; that’s what pays the bills.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “My day does not truly begin until I’ve acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It’s the Big Gulp that’s important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.”

15. “My day does not truly begin until I’ve acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It’s the Big Gulp that’s important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I’ve hit the jackpot.”

16. “When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I’ve hit the jackpot.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it’s in the world, you can’t follow it. You’d have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.”

17. “The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it’s in the world, you can’t follow it. You’d have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.”

18. “Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “I’ve just always loved animals. So I’ve often thought that if I weren’t a writer I’d work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.”

19. “I’ve just always loved animals. So I’ve often thought that if I weren’t a writer I’d work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.”

— Cate Marvin

Cate Marvin Quote: “I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I’m surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.”

20. “I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I’m surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.”

— Cate Marvin

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