Marguerite Young
Marguerite Young
Marguerite Vivian Youngwas an American writer and academic. She is best known for her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. In her later years, she was known for teaching creative writing and as a mentor to young authors. "She was a respected literary figure as well as a cherished Greenwich Village eccentric." Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Young was educated at Butler University and the Universities of Chicago and Iowa. She briefly taught at Shortridge High School before embarking on...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1908
CountryUnited States of America
Marguerite Young quotes about
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
Don't blindly follow any leader.
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.