"For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice."

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Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#Voice Quotes #Poet Quotes #Should Quotes

“Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.”
“I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.”
“The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.”
“My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.”
“I make a good fried chicken.”
“The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people.”
“Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.”
“I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.”

Source : "Pinch Spaceships, Look Stupid: Living The Life Of A Giant Space Crab" by Ryan Rigney, www.wired.com. April 26, 2013.

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