Harryette Mullen quotes
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“The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description and heartfelt expression to classical allusion and evocative wordplay. Succeeding generations rediscover and renew the form so that it retains its vitality.”
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“The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.”
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“I’ll be emotionally disturbed for as long as it takes”
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“I’ll be emotionally disturbed for as long as it takes”
-- Harryette MullenSource : Harryette Mullen (2002). “Sleeping with the Dictionary”, p.28, Univ of California Press
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“The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.”
-- Harryette MullenSource : Harryette Mullen (2002). “Sleeping with the Dictionary”, p.39, Univ of California Press
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Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
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Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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Source : "Trauma and Recovery". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, 1992.
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