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Galway Kinnell Quotes

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 1, 1927 - October 28, 2014

Topics

Poetry You Ridiculous Understand Way

I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.

Man Me White Stop Done Out

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

Intelligence Think Presentation Well

George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author is a perfect union.

Genius Perfect Masterpiece Union

The oil areas have a big problem digesting the oil. There's too much money, and the people don't know what to do with it. I'm finding all the time that we have more industries and more success stories which are not involved with oil.

Stef Wertheimer

Success Time Money People Problem

I'm just going to do everything my coaches ask me.

Me Ask Everything Going Just

It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Ignore You Wrong Important May Your

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

Men Negative Think Wrong Something

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Myself Someone Done Never See I See

Bars are about experience and interaction; so often, the people make the bar.

Experience People Bar Interaction

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

Think Doing Feedback I Can Audience

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

Future People Me Present Mean Radio

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Skin Civilization Lamb Which

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