Stephen Dobyns Quotes
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
Stephen Dobyns
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Walter Murch
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Frances Bean Cobain
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
Taylor Hackford
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
Pat Nixon
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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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.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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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.
Allen Tate
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.
Alison Assiter
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Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.
Manoj Bhargava
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
Vincent Cassel
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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.
Stephen Dobyns
