Billy Collins The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme. – Billy Collins Basis Quotes Constructed Quotes Dna Quotes Endrhyme Quotes Key Quotes Lot Quotes Meter Quotes Poem Quotes Reader Quotes Rest Quotes Signature Quotes Tone Quotes Trust Quotes Often people, when they’re confronted with a poem, it’s like someone who keep saying ‘what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?’ And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I’m locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
Jerry Saltz In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. – Jerry Saltz
Richard Belzer It is not impossible to succeed as a social democracy, where business and free enterprise thrive, and not abandon the disenfranchised, poor, sick, and elderly. – Richard Belzer
James Gunn I’m a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn’t necessarily make other people laugh. – James Gunn
Shweta Tripathi I want to do a project with the right intentions – not money or popularity or to be busy. I’m not even concerned about being ‘out of sight, out of mind’ because if that’s the motivation, then I won’t give my 110% to the work. – Shweta Tripathi
Peter Hammill I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. – Peter Hammill
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