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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

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So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

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After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

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I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

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Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

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If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

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We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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Writing a poem is discovering.

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Writing is the great invention of the world.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

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The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

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