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Dan Beachy-Quick

(1973) Poet

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Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, best known for Active Romanticism.

Quick Facts About Dan Beachy-Quick

Born: January 1, 1973
Profession: Poet
Notable works: Active Romanticism

About Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick is an American poet, writer, and critic. He is the author of eight collections of poems, most recently, Variations on Dawn and Dusk, longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include A Whaler’s Dictionary, a collection of essays about Moby Dick. His honors include a Lannan Foundation Residency and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Dan Beachy-Quick

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But…

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Air

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“Wonder, as a point of concern, denies its own consideration. It has the remarkable capacity to hide in the midst of its…

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Curiosity

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[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters…

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Accidents

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The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

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Honest

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Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it…

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Asks

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“I see the world is flat and the map flat that records it, and both page and world speak each other forever.…

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“I like the moment of failure that finds us on that line, abandoned of intent, caught in an experience of a different…

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Different world

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“Memory is igneous more than ingenious, igneous, and like granite, intrusive, heaved up within oneself, the whole range of one's life, mountains'…

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Journey

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