Felix Dennis Quotes
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When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
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No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
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I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.