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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.
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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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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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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My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.
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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.
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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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People who are too uptight make me nervous.
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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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I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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