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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I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?
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The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.
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The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.
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There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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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.
