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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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 do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.
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Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.
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I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
