Gregory Pardlo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.
-- Gregory Pardlo

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I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.
-- Gregory Pardlo

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I admit I keep a clichÃ©d ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.
-- Gregory Pardlo

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On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.
-- Gregory Pardlo

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My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.
-- Gregory Pardlo

#Bullying #Writing #Emotional
I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.
-- Gregory Pardlo

#Distance #Ironic #Brooklyn

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
The simplest answer is to act.
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

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