Quotes by George Murray
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I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.
In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.
I suppress the vast majority of what I write.
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
My self-editing process is intense.
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.
I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.
The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.
With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly.
I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.
A sequence works in a way a collection never can.
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
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