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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.
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My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.
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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.
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I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.
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Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.
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As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
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I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.
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I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.
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We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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