Cornelius Eady quotes
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“When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.”
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“I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.”
-- Cornelius EadySource : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
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“Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.”
-- Cornelius EadySource : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
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“Cynicism is a form of obedience.”
-- Cornelius EadySource : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
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“What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.”
-- Cornelius EadySource : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
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“It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.”
-- Cornelius EadySource : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
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“For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me.”
-- Cornelius EadySource : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
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“Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.”
-- Cornelius EadySource : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
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“Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.”
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“Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.”
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Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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“I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.”
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