Christopher Logue famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language.
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And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!
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Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced
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It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.
-- Christopher Logue
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The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.
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When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.
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A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.
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One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
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Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
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Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
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