American - Writer | January 26, 1960 -
There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.
Nick Flynn
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I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.
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Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.
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For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against my bare chest until a friend who was a doctor came by and asked what I was doing, and told me to put some clothes on that baby.
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What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'
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To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license.
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Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
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I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.
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