Lisel Mueller
Lisel Mueller
Lisel Muelleris an American poet. She won the U.S. National Book Award in 1981 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1997...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 February 1924
CountryUnited States of America
Lisel Mueller quotes about
over-you answers events
Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.
grieving luxury imaginary
What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.
writing college thinking
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
war grandparent german-history
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.
writing facts autobiography
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
writing language wells
Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
writing indifference writing-poems
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.