"I prefer to see with closed eyes."

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Source : Arts/Canada, Vol. 23, (p. 46), 1966.

#Eye Quotes #Perception Quotes #Closed Eyes Quotes

“You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.”
“People are locked up in all sorts of ways.”
“I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes conflict. Regarding how the quotidian makes its way into the work, it's all of it, in a way. Like, when I'm writing poems, I'm just picking up scraps of whatever is happening around me - a geographical location, a love affair failed, the day the air felt like rope.”

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“The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.”
“I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.”
“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.”
“Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'”
“You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.”

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