Dan Chiasson Inspirational Quotes (3)

If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.

I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.

I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' An Ordinary Evening in New Haven for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for me, certain books, just by reading a phrase I feel I can write.