"Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later."

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Source : "Christopher Wool & Richard Hell". www.interviewmagazine.com. November 18, 2008.

Richard Hell

#Years Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”
“The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.”
“I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.”
“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people...”
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.”

Source : My Life in Court ch. 1 (1961)
“Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble-no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.”
“Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.”
“The Gospel is a gospel of power or it is nothing at all.”

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