"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."

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Anne Stevenson

#Criticism Quotes #Poet Quotes #Should Quotes

“Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.”
“To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.”
“This ain't no garden party, brother, thisis wrestling, where only the strongest survive.”
“Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.”
“There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.”
“The death sentence is a barbaric act.”
“Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.”

Source : Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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