Kevin Clark and Amy Hewes Together at Moonstone Beach, California. Kevin Clark is a poet, essayist, and teacher in the English Department at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
“I like restraint—if doesn’t go too far.”
“A work of art is never completed, merely abandoned.”
“Keep your eye clear and hit ’em where they ain’t.”
“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I already knew.”
“There is only one plot: Things are not what they seem.”
“The art of running the mile consists, in essence, of reaching the threshold of consciousness at the instant of breasting the tape.”
“Poetry begins where certitude ends.”
“In the midst of our happiness we were very pleased.”
“Let’s play two.”
“Poetry is a dream dreamed in the presence of reason.”