"Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment."

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

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#Stuff Quotes #Way Quotes #Moments Quotes

“A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.”

Source : "Truth and Method". Book by Hans-Georg Gadamer (p. 76), 1960.
“A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.”
“I do believe there's been a lull of slasher films. There have been a few that I guess would fall under the genre of slasher. Like You're Next, which I thought was fun. There have been a few really good slasher films, but for the most part, that's sort of died away at the moment.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway”, p.3, Yearling
“First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.”
“The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.”
“He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.”
“Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what is that thing, what is it you are carrying, what are you going to be doing with that thing, why have you that thing, where did you get that thing, how long will you have that thing, there are very many men and women who want to know about anything about everything.”

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