"I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters"."

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Source : Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”

Alice Fulton

#Reading Quotes #Mean Quotes #Views Quotes

“Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.”
“Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.”
“My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.”
“My altered perception of reality while on psychedelic drugs came as a total shock to me.”
“Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law....”
“Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.”

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