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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IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.
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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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I don't give a whole lot of thought or credence to questions about what comes on next, what goes on next.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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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.
