"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language"

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Source : Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

Paul Muldoon

#Believe Quotes #Language Quotes #Repetition Quotes

“We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.”
“I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.”
“To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant carnage: but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint relations to the general benefit of their own species, and that of other species with which they are associated in the great family of Nature, resolves each apparent case of individual evil, into an example of subserviency to universal good.”

Source : William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.112, Psychology Press
“I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.”
“People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.”
“The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil”
“No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'”
“A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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