News at Eleven: Sometimes, in that state of receptivity,

something occurs (is said or spoken through a writer) that the writer never could have imagined beforehand. The act of writing itself brings one into a relationship with imagination, memory, music, silence, diction, syntax, language, and history, all at the same time. To write not knowing where you're going is an act of faith that something will come of it that is more than one could have hoped or imagined. [--Marie Howe]

from The Huffington Post: Poetic Justice: Marie Howe Named New York Laureate

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