Jan Clausen quotes
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“the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.”
-- Jan ClausenSource : Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr
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“we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.”
-- Jan ClausenSource : Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr
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“You cannot escape sex. It will track you to the ends of the earth.”
-- Jan ClausenSource : Jan Clausen (1981). “Mother, sister, daughter, lover: stories”
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“... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness whichconstitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us.”
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“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”
-- Jan ClausenSource : Jan Clausen (1989). “Books & Life”
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“Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?”
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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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“All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.”
Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.309, Head of Zeus Ltd
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