"... all poetry is reaching for silence in some way ... deeply conscious of every word, paring it back all the time, cutting it back - why is it doing that? because it's trying to reach nearer to the silence ... how does it do that? ... it does that by having a music ... it's got to have some kind of music that is lifting you to somewhere else ..."
"T. S. Eliot more or less said ... if you write for one hour you are doing very well, but what do you do for the other twenty-three hours of the day?
... you must have a grounding, there must be a context into which you write ..."
from live recording at Adelaide Writers' Week 2012
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2012/10/pca_20121006_1505.mp3
http://dennisodriscoll.com/
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