"The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless."

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Source : "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

Katy Lederer

#Thinking Quotes #Useless Quotes #Ghost Quotes

“You need, instead, to be defined by your values.”
“Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. March 13, 2005.
“If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.”
“Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration.”
“Anybody who is in #â€Ž freelance work, especially #â€Ž artistically , knows that it comes with all the #â€Ž insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening #â€Ž life .”
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

Source : "This Man Faced Unimaginable Suffering, And Then Wrote The Definitive Book About Happiness" by Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.
“When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.”
“I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.”

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