Sherman Alexie Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]
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I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
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It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.
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When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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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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From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.
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Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow.
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"Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.
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I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.
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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
