A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.
Stephen DunnA moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.
Stephen DunnI make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.
Stephen DunnOriginality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.
Stephen DunnThere's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.
Stephen Dunn