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Gyorgy Ligeti

"There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."

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Donna Grant

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Donna Grant

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Donna Grant

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The crown of literature is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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Donna Grant

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

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Donna Grant

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man."

Man

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"I think a composer is always interested in his last work."

Work

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."

Music

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."

Music

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."

Complexity

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"First of all I listen to music. I like music."

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