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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line,…
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What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
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A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit…
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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of…
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Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open…
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on…
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A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living…
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This…
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Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that…
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,…
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
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This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and…
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great…
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I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
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Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by…
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We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no…
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I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against…
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The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
— Helmut Newton
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by…
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