"There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too."

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David Meltzer

#Writing Quotes

“Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in this town wants you." She laughed. "Yea, right. The old guys from the nursing home go into cardiac arrest whenever I walk by." His gaze drifted over her. "I can believe that.”
“To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons
“The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.”
“[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.”
“The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.”
“This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.”
“The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.”

Source : Gail Godwin, Shannon Ravenel (1985). “The Best American short stories, 1985”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.”

Source : Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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