Giovanni Raboni famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly proselike colloquial narrative along with moments of powerful lyrical tension. There is a movement of extremes, from powerful tonality to near atonality, and I like this a great deal; it's a stance that very effectively catches the spirit that makes work in poetry possible nowadays.
-- Giovanni Raboni
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Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
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I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
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You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.
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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.
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All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.
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My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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