Lidia Poet Quotes

We drank everything his favorite poet drank-Bukowski- and like Bukowski's women, I matched him drink for drink. We drank each other blind.

She’s thinking about grief and trauma, how they can hide out inside a woman, how they can come back. The playwright follows her eyes, until he sees what she sees. The photographer’s framed image, the orphan girl lit up by the explosion, a girl blowing forward, a girl coming out of fire, a girl who looks as if she might blast right through image and time into the world “I know what’s happened,” the poet says.

Every human is a poet Although they might not know it The beating of their heart The things that tear them apart Their pure existence is poetry Oh how I hope they set themselves free

I’m a timid person and I often find myself listening and watching people. From that I create prose and stories.

I don’t want my poems to mean one thing. I want them to mean many different things to many different people. Freedom of interpretation.