Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Selima Hill

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British poet Selima Hill.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Selima Hill is a British poet. She has published twenty poetry collections since 1984. Her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for the most important British poetry awards: the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award.

British - Poet | Born: October 13, 1945

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An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

Selima Hill

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

Selima Hill

I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.

Selima Hill

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

Selima Hill

When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

Selima Hill

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

Selima Hill

What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?

Selima Hill

The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

Selima Hill

There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

Selima Hill

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

Selima Hill

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.

Selima Hill

I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.

Selima Hill

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

Selima Hill

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Selima Hill

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