Stephen Dunn Quotes
I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written in the past that appear very personal often are fictions of the personal, which nevertheless reveal concerns of mine. I've always thought of my first-person speaker as an amalgam of selves, maybe of other people's experiences as well.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm an honest, open father.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
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…a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.
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You’ve been a father to me.Your 1960’s speak.Gives me comatose joy like re-run TV.While the mountainside was shining.Wild colors of my destiny
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.
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I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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I always used to get in trouble for talking too much. When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
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I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.
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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
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I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written in the past that appear very personal often are fictions of the personal, which nevertheless reveal concerns of mine. I've always thought of my first-person speaker as an amalgam of selves, maybe of other people's experiences as well.
