Daniel Woodrell Quotes
I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
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I have a fearless but neutral personality.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
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Oh yes, it was my Venice! Beautiful, With melancholy, ghostly beauty—old, And sorrowful, and weary—yet so fair, So like a queen still, with her royal robes, Full of harmonious colour, rent and worn!
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You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
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I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
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I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
