"Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault,"

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Source : Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

Yusef Komunyakaa

#Talking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Way Quotes

“Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.”
“[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.”
“Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.171, Princeton University Press
“Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.”
“There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.”
“Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.”
“All ***** is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.”
“Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.”

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