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1. "The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to paper. The disease is a crash course in meaninglessness, lack of structure, the collapse of form." ~ Gwyneth Lewis

2. "Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming." ~ Gwyneth Lewis

3. "The whole thing starts with a single knotand needles. A word and pen. Tie a loopin nothing. Look at it. Cast on, repeatthe procedure till you have a linethat you can work with.It's a pattern made of relation alone,my patience, my rhythm, till empty bightscreate a fabric that can be worn,if you're lucky and practised. It's nevertoo lateto pick up dropped stitches...(from "How to Knit a Poem")" ~ Gwyneth Lewis

4. "Your positive thinker may do well in suburbia but I'd rather be with a lucid depressive in the Arctic, where survival depends on precision and not fooling yourself about your chances on the ice." ~ Gwyneth Lewis

5. "Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If you don't obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces." ~ Gwyneth Lewis

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I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so that they may love me, and so that I can love them. For me, this is very important, and many, or all, of my relationships are based on that."
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