At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 – of old age. Marguerite Young Read Quote
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. Marguerite Young Read Quote
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered. Marguerite Young Read Quote
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don’t mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it’s a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. Marguerite Young Read Quote
I’m as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I’m much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. Marguerite Young Read Quote
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? Marguerite Young Read Quote
I’ve been willing to go for years without publishing. That’s been my career. Marguerite Young Read Quote
I’m quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. Marguerite Young Read Quote
