"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality."

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Mark Strand

#Thinking Quotes #Personality Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.”

Source : Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“The only thing that goes with Crocs is social Ostracism.”

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“If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.”

Source : "Performance artist Marina Abramović: 'I was ready to die'" By Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.
“I did not initially take to the music of the Ramones, because I had never really heard of them before. Allan Arkush had given me a cassette of the Ramones and said, "You're their No. 1 fan, so I want you to know all of their songs and fall in love with these guys." I put the cassette on and I remember running around the house going, "Oh my God. That's music?"”
“To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!”
“See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.”
“Any kind of sequence when you have to express physical space and time can be difficult to story-tell because, if you're sitting there watching it like it's a play or something, your mind can track what's going on, or if you're watching an actual fight you can kind of track what's going on, but as soon as you have to start telling the story and tracking for the audience, it becomes much more complicated.”

Source : Source: www.fanbolt.com
“The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.”

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