Quotes From Writers + Poets

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  ‘I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.’

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  ‘I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.’

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  ‘A dead man in Spain is more alive when dead than anywhere else on earth.’

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  ‘A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.’

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  ‘Be regular and orderly in your life, like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.’

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  ‘Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously.’

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  ‘The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.’

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  ‘Race is the child of racism, not the father.’

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  ‘Culture does not make people. People make culture.’

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  ‘Grace to be born and live as variously as possible.’

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  ‘The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.’

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  ‘I would rather write nothing at all than propagandize for the world as it is.’

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  ‘I always come to poetry when I have no words.’

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  ‘An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.’

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  ‘Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.’

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  ‘I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.’

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  ‘It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes.’

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  ‘Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.’

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  ‘Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.’

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  ‘Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.’

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  ‘I will write to avenge my people.’

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  ‘Facts are not truth, but the record of what’s left on the record.’

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  ‘I’m telling you stories. Trust me.’

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  ‘A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.’

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  ‘I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself.’

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