"For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying."

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Source : Stephen Dobyns (2011). “Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry”, p.59, Macmillan

Stephen Dobyns

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“It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have to decide which out of fifty artists is the next hot one, with no data to go from. It's an intuitive process, and that's what they do well when they're successful. They don't understand technology.”
“After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.”
“I love my life and I am so blessed.”
“One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many possibilities for creativity, but they also make you lazy.”

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“There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“I will not live by rules that make no sense to me”
“If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.”
“Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.”

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