"Rap is only one end of a whole……" — Rita Dove
"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."
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74 Quotes by Rita Dove
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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable,…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us…
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of…
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process…
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I…
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More Aural Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of…
— David Foster Wallace
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The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of…
— Brian Reynolds Myers
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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold…
— Wesley Morris
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I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.
— Mike Nichols
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But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
— Leo Ornstein
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Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
— Leila Josefowicz
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Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with…
— Roland Barthes
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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments.…
— Brian Eno
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I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email,…
— Will Self
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Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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