"My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read widely, in a variety of time periods and cultures, to identify which traits of poems are appealing and which aversive. And what can be stolen."

-- Lucia Perillo

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“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
“Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.”
“I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.”
“It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.”
“So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse, that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nassariyeh the latter a city which briefly rose in successful revolt against Saddam in 1991 why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?”
“Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.”
“Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.”
“If your gig is not in an office for eight hours a day, its going to be somewhere. If you're a truck driver, you get on a road. If you're a musician, you go to where the people are going to show up and you take the gig. I enjoy it, so I don't and I'm not complaining. Its just the traveling can get to be a bit much.”

Source : "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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