"Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening."

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Source : "Paradigms Lost", interview with Gloria Brame, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, Spring 1995.

Dana Gioia

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“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”
“Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success.”
“Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.”

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“I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.”
“I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.”

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“The grander the vision the greater the price tag.”
“In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.”
“I'm inspired heavily by film influences - David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro AlmodÃ³var, and what I see in the cinema - so there is a linking, an interweaving between memory, cinema and contemporary life, which the women in my pictures encapsulate.”

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