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

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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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Donna Grant

"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

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Donna Grant

"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

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Donna Grant

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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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."

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

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

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

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"I don't read such boring things. Life is too short."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided."

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