Dan Burt Quotes

United States, Basketball Coach
August 12, 1970

Dan Burt is an American college basketball coach, currently women's head coach at the Duquesne University. He played collegiately at West Liberty State and was an assistant at West Virginia, UNC Wilmington, Bucknell and Duquesne prior to being named head coach of the Dukes in 2013.

The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?

Dan Burt
I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow.

Dan Burt
- Men
- Thinking
- Writing

American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away from a world that you've been told was the greatest country on earth.

Dan Burt
- Earth
- Difficult
- Greatest
I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual and accurate and as unemotional as I could, and let readers make their own judgments on what happened. And, in fact, that's how I write poetry. I'm trying to present the reader with the experience itself, not with my commentary on it. So I adopted a style that I'd hoped would let me accomplish that.

Dan Burt
- Writing
- Trying
- Style
When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that I wanted in the International Tax Council's office in Treasury. I arrived determined to change the world. But I discovered very quickly that the world couldn't care less. And I couldn't stomach the lying and stealing that I witnessed. I realized that the only difference between my mother's family and the senators and administrators that I was working with was that the latter wore suits and ties.

Dan Burt
- World
- School
- Care