"I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But thereâ€™s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry."

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Source : "David Biespiel's poetry wire: the cynicism of Mark Edmundson, or poetry is still not dead". therumpus.net. June 21, 2013.

David Biespiel

#Long Quotes #Cynicism Quotes #Mess Quotes

“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”

Source : Jack Gilbert, “A Brief For The Defense”
“I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.”
“All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.”
“My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.. ..Some will say he's gone mad - others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.”

Source : "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 25, 1988.
“I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.”

Source : The Acoustic Storm Interview, www.acousticstorm.com.
“We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.”
“Donâ€™t look for new landscapes, use new eyes to see what is already there.”
“There cannot be prosperity without security.”

Source : "Francois Hollande and John Kerry address Davos 2015 - live" by Graeme Wearden, Angela Monaghan, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2015.

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