must be survivors."When you meet a poet you can know instantly that here is somebody who is very ambidextrous, who has carried a really ardent vocation on top of everything else," she said.
But although it's not easy, poetry changes your existence.
"Poetry just infuses my life," Gallagher said. "It makes everything richer because your ability to pay attention is so sharpened. It's a way of seeing the world, and of being in the world, the attentiveness that poetry brings into your life."
from The Vancouver Sun: Tess Gallagher: Poetry has a tender feel for the natural world
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