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"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."
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"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"Language is wine upon the lips."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
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"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."
Television
"I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language."
Language
"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."
Poetry
"We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."
Poetry
"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
Living
"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."
Fact
"I do a lot of readings."
Reading
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading
"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
Creativity
"Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level."
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