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.
Stephen Dunn
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
Jack Adams
Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
Nadine Velazquez
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Abraham Maslow
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.
Karan Mahajan
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
Hanif Kureishi
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
Chris Patten
Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
Mark Levin
I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
Ben Carson
When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
Fernando Flores
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.
Stephen Dunn
