“I always seem to be trying to do six or seven different poems at the same time and just hoping I can keep them all well-nurtured enough so that one of them will suddenly get strong enough to take over all by itself until it is done.”
Elizabeth Bishop
more infosource: Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 77.
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category: creative process, multitask, poetry, writing
medium: letter
notes: letter to Robert Lowell, dated Sunday, January 11, 1949
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