"Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds."

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Source : Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (1997). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.197, W. W. Norton & Company

Dorianne Laux

#Cutting Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Important Quotes

“jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.”

Source : Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner
“It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.”
“His screaming stallions maned with whistling wind.”

Source : Anna Hempstead Branch, “Nimrod”
“Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.”
“Legalize it, and I will advertise it.”
“Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.”
“Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.”
“The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.”

Source : Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean

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