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"The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me."
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"I think there should be bad blood between all clubs."
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"It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme."
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"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."
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"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."
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"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."
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"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."
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"When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD."
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"Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire."
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"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."
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"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
Experience
"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
Fiction
"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."
Art
"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."
Reading
"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
Poetry
"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."
Family
"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
Poetry
"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."
Poetry
"Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry."
Poetry
"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
Students
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