Peter Gizzi quotes
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“I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.”
-- Peter GizziSource : Interview with Robert N. Casper, poems.com. 2007.
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“So often we measure by what is false. We should measure by what is barely legible barely in our dailiness. It is the invisible that doesn't lie the invisible through which we see ourselves finally on a back street in the world.”
-- Peter GizziSource : Peter Gizzi (2007). “The Outernationale”, p.90, Wesleyan University Press
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“With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler”
-- Peter GizziSource : Peter Gizzi (2008). “The Outernationale”, p.45, Wesleyan University Press
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“The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.”
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“To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.”
-- Peter Gizzi
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“A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.”
Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.461, e-artnow
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“I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.”
Source : Interview with Robert N. Casper, poems.com. 2007.
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