We know there are good sugars and bad sugars, and we don't discuss whether food in general is good or bad for us. We need to be far more nuanced when we talk about the effects of video games.

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• Daphne Gottlieb:

  I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves an

• Daphne Gottlieb:

  I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need,

• Daphne Gottlieb:

  I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as p

• Daphne Gottlieb:

  I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

• Daphne Gottlieb:

  That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

• Daphne Gottlieb:

  I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've

• Daphne Gottlieb:

  I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

• Daphne Gottlieb:

  Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or

• Daphne Gottlieb:

  I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beaut

• Daphne Gottlieb:

  Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.