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Kevin Young Quotes

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The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

Truth Art Imagination Facts Reality

The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found myself a poet and a collector and now a curator: to save what we didn't even know needed saving.

Myself Me Lost Know Now Recovery

I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.

Influence End Say Try Up Influences

It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.

Black Think Language American Hard

I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

Parents Grow Grow Up Up Technically

To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.

Poetry Me Dead Confederate Different

I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.

Growing Up Growing Know Up Kansas

I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we underestimate that.

Good People Story Think Want Way

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

History Thinking Way Us Move Poets

I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'

Good Music Think View Said Kind

People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at all.

People Think Sometimes Say Line

There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

Black Interesting Talking Always

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