Velimir Khlebnikov quotes
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“A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.”
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“Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.”
-- Velimir KhlebnikovSource : Velimir Khlebnikov, Charlotte Douglas (1990). “The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian”, p.205, Harvard University Press
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“The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.”
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“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.”
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“But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.”
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“Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.”
Source : Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”
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“Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”
Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
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