"I've always been more than a little mystified by poets who seem to think talking to people as directly as possible is a bad thing. I mean, I don't want to set up a straw man here: I understand that for many poets - and for me, at times - writing truly means writing in a way that is difficult, simply because the poem is trying to grasp for something elusive. So the difficulty of the poem is just unavoidable, and not in any way artificially imposed. So "as possible" is the key part of the phrase above, I suppose."

Source : Source: therumpus.net

Matthew Zapruder

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.”

Source : "Daily Word for Families". Book by Colleen Zuck et al., 1999.
“We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.”
“If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.”
“When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.”
“The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.”
“REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.”
“My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.”

Source : "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.
“I did everything but drink the bong water when I was young.”

Source : "Dornan to make drugs an issue Rohrabacher's youthful substance use and medical-marijuana bill are targets" by Martin Wisckol, www.angelfire.com. December 22, 2003.

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