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“Language is the tool of the tools”
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“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon – even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.”
Source : "Interview with Tracy K. Smith – 'Poets are Lucky'". Interview with Michael Klein, blog.pshares.org. May 30, 2012.
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“I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'”
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“When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.”
Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”
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“It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.”
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“If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Momâ€, she’s gonna call me “Point B.”
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“A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.”
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“You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.”