"A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices."

Source : "Unlikely Stories, Mostly". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1983.

Alasdair Gray

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“Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.”
“On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.”
“Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. donâ€™t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”

Source : 'Partisan Review' Winter 1967, p. 57
“Angels are totally real. Tinkerbell has a hot ass. Wendigos exist. It's all true. Satan is blonde. True fact.”

Source : "'Supernatural': Misha Collins says the darndest things" by Marisa Roffman, screenertv.com. March 28, 2010.
“I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.”
“Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.”
“Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and try and break down what makes a fan of that music say 'Ah fuck that other music', do you get me? Trying to figure out what makes them tick, I always try and break that down with every piece of music. But the energy in that music, I love it.”

Source : Interview with Mark Pytlik, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2005.

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