“No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction – a need, a necessity, a vision that is so pressing that it has no other outlet but through you. That doesn’t mean that you are unconscious or in trance, but there can be moments like that.”

“No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction – a need, a necessity, a vision that is so pressing that it has no other outlet but through you. That doesn’t mean that you are unconscious or in trance, but there can be moments like that.”

— Anne Waldman