Lord Dunsany Quotes
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.
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If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.
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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.
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You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"
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Watch me until I fall asleep. Watch me always even when you leave Naples. That way I'll know that you see me and I'm at peace.
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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
