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