Literature Quotes - Page 31

• Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Thinking, Helping, Reader

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• Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Spiritual, Exercise, Literary Genre

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• Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Thinking, Two, Different

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• The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

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• The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Musical, Sound, Syntax

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• The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Character, Peculiar, Difficult

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• I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Critics, Movie Critic, Journalist

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  Tayari Jones

  Issues, Secret, Western

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• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  Tayari Jones

  Hallmark, American Literature, Protagonists

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• To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Reading, Privilege, Steps

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• I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Country, Men, Prussia

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.35, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Differences, Style, Church

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.53, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

  Martin Bashir

  Criminals, Saws, Activity

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• The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

  Bob Woodward

  Interesting, Criminals, Cover Ups

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• It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Sex, Roles, Consciousness

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• And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

  Norman MacCaig

  Thinking, Taught, Poetry Is

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• I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

  Norman MacCaig

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

  Norman MacCaig

  Book

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• I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

  Norman MacCaig

  Years, American Poetry

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• People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

  Norman MacCaig

  Long, People, Share

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• In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

  Norman MacCaig

  Thinking, People, Way

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• It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

  Norman MacCaig

  Breathing, Conversation, Persons

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