Ethan Canin Quotes
I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
Quotes to Explore
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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The meaning of the story is the story.
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In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
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I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.
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I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
