"There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all we care about is language. At least in the initial stages of the process of writing the poem, though later other things start to come in, and a really good poem usually needs something more than just an interest in the material of language to mean anything to a reader."

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Matthew Zapruder

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
“Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.”
“I love awards, especially if I get them.”
“The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio Museum is really a contemporary art museum that happens to be about the diaspora and a particular body of contemporary artists ignored by the mainstream. The Studio Museum has championed that and brought into the mainstream. So the museums are like brothers, but different.”

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“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.”
“I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.”
“The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.”
“I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off.”

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