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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not…
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts…
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
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On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from…
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Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what…
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We…
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
— John Ashbery
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You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide…
— Martin Amis
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Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.
— Doug Stanhope
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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
— Mark Strand
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I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all…
— Frederick Seidel
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I like poems that are daggers that sing.
— Frederick Seidel
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The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
— Stan Brakhage
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All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
— John Fowles
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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
— Brian Ferneyhough
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I like poems that are little games.
— Peter Davison
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I like poems that are complex.
— Peter Davison
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