“I also had to come to terms with the fact that I had not learned to notice things. I had not learned to interrogate the world around me. I was drifting in a dream-like state. It might have been because I was a poet. I daydreamed a lot. I took the world in in a sensory way, and I saw things in terms of their appearances. So if something looked beautiful or graceful or lovely, I never looked deeper to know why it was that way and what was going on below the surface.”
-from an interview with Carolyn Forché