An extraordinarily high proportion of writing time consists of waiting until you can see, or hear what's wrong with the words in front of you; this is not a process that can be hurried.
He writes of Hans Neumann and his wife, Margarete Buber-Neumann, waiting in Moscow's Comintern hotel for the secret police to arrive.
Sheers has the tendency to make every implication, every parallel, explicit: "He had waited before, through the longest of winters, just to see her, and he could wait again," he writes of Albrecht.
The Swedish writer, Henning Mankell, creator of Wallander, who was diagnosed with cancer in January, wrote movingly about the agony of waiting for treatment.
Another reader, Sagalovich, from New York City, wrote that after a year of waiting she did obtain aid for her 92-year-old mother — but only after she asked a state senator to intercede on her behalf.
Turning Point said "vast improvements have been made to the service since this report was written last year, including the reduction of waiting times to no more than five days".
That's why he started to write, because he was tired "of waiting for the phone to ring".
He has months on end where it's a really dark stretch of writing and waiting, he has his total own world so …" She falls silent.
She herself believes writing saved her from a life of waiting for something to happen, like one of Chekhov's "Three Sisters", a play for which she confesses to having something of an obsession.
This assumes that writing poetry is mostly a matter of waiting and hoping, which in turn raises questions about how confident we can be in discussing (to say nothing of criticizing) a poet's development.
