"Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back."

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Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

Stephen Burt

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“The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except its founder.”

Source : "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption". Book by Clive Foss, 2006.
“The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle”

Source : Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.
“I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.”
“The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back.”
“I read the reviews sometimes, but I don't let it really affect the next album because, for me, when I approach an album, it's usually coming to me pretty naturally. It's not like I set out, like, "Okay, I'm going to write an album this month." It's more like I'm just always writing songs and eventually I start to realize that a group of songs sort of fits together, and I go from there in putting together the album and themes and artwork and things like that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.”
“I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.”
“To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.”

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