Frederick Seidel famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.
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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 the power to upset and offend, are so well made that they’re achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.
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Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.
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I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.
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I like poems that are daggers that sing.
-- Frederick Seidel -
I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it.
-- Frederick Seidel
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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