"In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others."

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Source : Stephen Burt (2009). “Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry”, Graywolf Press

Stephen Burt

#Giving Up Quotes #Personality Quotes #Poetry Quotes

“The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.”
“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”
“Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man”

Source : Song: Stay With Me Sam Smith
“I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do”

Source : Jimmy Greaves, Ian St John (2009). “Saint And Greavsie's Funny Old Games”, p.196, Hachette UK
“Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.”

Source : George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.153, Booklassic
“Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.”
“Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.”
“[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.”

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