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Explore our hand-picked selection of 37 inspiring quotes by Stephen Dobyns.

About Stephen Dobyns

  • Born: February 19, 1941
  • Occupation: Poet
    • Adolescence is a dreadful period. we tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)
    Attention Helping Miserable
    Louise gluck, c.k. williams, thomas lux. a lot of the poets that i like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.
    Poet
    I had a period when i read nobel prize winners. i figured they had to be good. i discovered some people i didn't know about, like the icelandic writer halldor laxness, who wrote "independent people." .
    Independent People Winner
    I never read ford madox ford's "the good soldier." i've been reading books that i should have read years ago and did not. that's one of them.
    Book Reading Years
    I remember coming upon philip larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when sylvia plath's "ariel" came out it knocked me off my feet.
    Feet Ariel Remember
    I had not read george eliot, so read a few. i felt ashamed i hadn't read "middlemarch" before.
    Ashamed Middlemarch Eliot
    I think i made a mistake with [jane] austen by reading all six in a row. there are similarities to the plots so by the time i got to the last one i could anticipate what was happening too easily. but her characterizations are amazing.
    Mistake Reading Thinking
    I'm reading "the sunset of a splendid century" by w.h. lewis. he was c.s. lewis's brother. he wrote two books about the french court of louis xiv that are incredibly detailed. they are books that on every page you say, "wow, think of that."
    Brother Reading Book
    I majored in english in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. i read a lot of [charles] dickens and [anthony ] trollope, but there was lots of stuff i hadn't read like thackeray's "vanity fair," which is so well written and funny.
    Writing School College
    Baudelaire's l'héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing poetry.
    Writing Long Poetry
    He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.
    Ocean Good Luck Thinking
    Other than fiction and poetry i tend to read history.
    Fiction
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