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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
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"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."
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"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
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"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."
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"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."
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"You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it."
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"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."
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"I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene."
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"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
Change
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
Being
"Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"
God
"If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them."
First
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
Being
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."
Future
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."
Mistake
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
Democracy
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
Theory
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."
Man
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