Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
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American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.
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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
