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Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  Like , Literature , Poets


When I applied for grad school, I did not specify genre. I said I wanted an MFA in Creative Writing. I was so cute and stupid! The admissions committee at Pitt decided to put me in poetry.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  Me , Stupid , Poetry , Cute


Every contemporary poet is a door to another poet.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  Every , Poet , Door , Contemporary


Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  You , Me , Time , Art


The thing that I've decided is, I don't want to be invisible, but I'd like to be transparent. I want people to see what I'm thinking and see through me.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  Me , See , People , Thinking


My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  Me , Painting , Leave , Habit


So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  Work , Best , Men , Mirror


We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  Know , Understand , Anything , Computers


Language is always burdened by thought.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  Always , Language , Thought , Burdened


I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.

Author: Terrance Hayes - American Educator
  Value , Places , Get , Inspiration


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