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.Denise Levertov
Quotes to Explore
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
Aaron Paul -
I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
Sammy Sosa -
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.
Yolandi Visser -
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sam Abell -
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
Walter Cronkite -
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
Ferdinand Marcos
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx -
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.
Yoko Ono -
My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
Sam Hunt -
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Madeleine Albright
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster -
For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
Vincent Bugliosi -
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.
Karen Joy Fowler -
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!
Aasif Mandvi -
I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!
Sam Ervin -
Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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September 11 definitely opened our eyes, but when I was 19 or whatever on the last record, we just didn't care about anything. We were too young to care about anything. And then as you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. That just kind of opened everyone's eyes (which I probably wish it did to more people) that there's obviously something wrong, to try and figure out what it is and what's going on in the world.
Deryck Whibley Sum 41 -
I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.
Arthur Tress -
Somehow, white South Africans believed that black labor was like a lawn mower: you could have it around, and when you didn’t need it, you could hide it in its little shed where it would be good and quiet-until you needed it again.
Arthur Kemp -
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
Neil Diamond -
History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
Allan Nevins -
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.
Denise Levertov