"My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself."

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David Starkey

#Thinking Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Listening Quotes

“The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.”
“When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.”

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“Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.”

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“Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways.”

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“Always drink upstream from the herd.”
“I do think the position I play is a powerful position.”
“Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.”
“Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.”

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