Adam Kirsch quotes
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“The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.”
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“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”
-- Adam KirschSource : "The Mystic Word" by Adam Kirsch, www.newyorker.com. October 9, 2006.
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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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“With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.”
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“Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.”
-- Adam KirschSource : Source: harvardmagazine.com
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“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.”
-- Adam KirschSource : Source: harvardmagazine.com
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise”
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“I sold my soul to the devil in L.A”
Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011
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“I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an ‘okay’?”
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