Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Manuel Puig
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I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
C. K. Williams
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By the time I was 16, the everlasting copying of stuffed birds and withered flowers at the Strasbourg School of Applied Art not only poisoned drawing for me but destroyed my taste for all artistic activity. I took refuge in poetry.
Jean Arp
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I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him.
Carolyn Kizer
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In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.
Mark Waid
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Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.
Alan Cranston
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Whatever god he adores, or even if he rejects all the gods, the man who desires to create cannot express himself if he does not feel in his veins the flow of all the rivers- even those which carry along sand and putrefaction, he is not realizing his entire being if he does not see the light of all the constellations, even those which no longer shine, if the primeval fire, even when locked beneath the crust of the earth, does not consume his nerves, if the hearts of all men, even the dead, even those still to be born, do not beat in his heart, if abstraction does not mount from his senses to his soul to raise it to the plane of the laws which cause men to act, the rivers to flow, the fire to burn, and the constellations to revolve.
Elie Faure
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
