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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"I see my life in terms of music."

"Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride."

"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."
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"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."

"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."

"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."

"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."

"To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret."

"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."

"No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern."
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