"You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem."

--

Source : Nicholson Baker (2014). “The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels”, p.22, Penguin

Nicholson Baker

#Swimming Quotes #White Quotes #Space Quotes

“The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).”
“Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.”
“Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.”
“On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.”

Source : Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.
“Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.”
“Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.”
“Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013
“I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.”

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