Denise Levertov Quotes
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!
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With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
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I always want to win with a world record.
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Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that we wrote was "Out Of My Heart" which is the first single. As soon as we wrote that, we knew we just set the standard and every other song had to be as good if not better.
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When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.
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I'm not going to play someone too far from who I am. Although I did a movie where I played a killer, and that has yet to come out. But that's someone I love being able to shock people with. I could do something you would not expect me to do. My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.
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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
