Adrian Matejka Quotes
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself. I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that. So to try to truly render the kind of economic and racial inequity I grew up in, I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn't fun to write, even though the poems aren't 100% autobiographical.Adrian Matejka
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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Sam Shepard -
If sex is a pain in the ass, then you're doing it wrong.
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Muhammad Ali -
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
William Dean Howells
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Obviously, it was a very conscious decision not to go down the same route we'd travelled before. In retrospect I don't think OK Computer sounded that much different to The Bends but this one does - it's a lot more textural and unlike anything we've done before.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?
Lewis Carroll -
To achieve great things you have first to believe it.
Arsene Wenger -
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Finn Jones -
I do think that all of us think in poems.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
I know, I know the world wants love. I know that the fans want love on the air. Of course they do. They want love on the air as they want love in pictures, in the theatre, in novels and poems. And I want to give them love on the air - but not cheap love, not a low - class type of love.
Nelson Eddy
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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
Honore de Balzac -
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself. I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that. So to try to truly render the kind of economic and racial inequity I grew up in, I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn't fun to write, even though the poems aren't 100% autobiographical.
Adrian Matejka