Jan Zwicky Quotes

Janine Louise Zwicky is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and musician.

✵ 10. May 1955
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“Lyric poetry is a kind of poetry that's literally musical.”

The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)

“When I write I am attempting to do justice to something I have glimpsed about the world.”

Griffin Prize Questionnaire June 2012
Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire

“Other times I am pestered by a recurrent visual image and this image will resonate with some tone-rhythm pattern, only after that does language start to come.”

'Perfect Fluency' interview with Scott Rosenberg, University of Wyoming Campus, Oct. 2010.
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“In the moment of creating I am aware neither of myself nor of others.”

The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)

“In my poetry, I am just as influenced by musicians or composers. As I am by people who create with words.”

Griffin Prize Questionnaire June 2012
Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire

“Most poetry involves rhythmically structured or patterned language, avoiding what might be called 'a singing line.”

The Details interview with Jay Ruzesky (Winter 2008)

“As a poet I compose aloud.”

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