“I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts
of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence
that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as
discipline. It is, though. It's the discipline to endure hours that you
refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry, though you
may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it
may be playing practical havoc with your life. It's the discipline of
preparedness.”
―
Christian Wiman,
Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet
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