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Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

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Writing A Poem Is Like Having An

Amos Oz

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

May this marriage be blessed.may this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.may this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.may this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.may this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.may this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.may this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.listen lovers, now you go on, as i become silent and kiss this blessed night.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. a short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. the whole life of us writers, the whole product i guess i mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. it's all the same poem. it doesn't belong to any one writer - it's god's poem perhaps. or god's people's poem.

The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: less is always more. the short poem rejects preamble and summary. it's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …the short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.

I don't really get the same kinda romance that i would get from, like, jazz. and even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can i put it? a very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

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Am i a rock star? yeah, i guess.

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