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Stephen Dobyns Quotes
Stephen Dobyns Quotes
Stephen Dobyns
American
Poet
Born:
Feb 19
,
1941
Believe
Change
Keep Moving
Three
Try
Word
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Edgar Allan Poe
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My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.
Stephen Dobyns
Nature
Word
Way
Hook
Rarely
Poems
Brushing
Write
Writer
Feel
Develops
Like
Know
Always
Sound
Metaphor
Fish
Begin
May
Against
Much
Even
Sudden
Image
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