Oscar Wilde Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.
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What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
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I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
