Stephen Dobyns Quotes
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
Quotes to Explore
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
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Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
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It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
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Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
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...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.
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The monsoon came, six months of infinite rain. The towns I once knew were wiped clean, and everyone said it was God revising his poem.
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I've choreographed all of my movies.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
