Albert Goldbarth quotes
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“Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.”
-- Albert GoldbarthSource : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press
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“If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.”
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“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.”
-- Albert GoldbarthSource : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press
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“I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves.”
-- Albert GoldbarthSource : Source: muse.jhu.edu
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“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.”
-- Albert GoldbarthSource : Source: muse.jhu.edu
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“Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.”
-- Albert Goldbarth
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Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
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“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
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Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
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“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”
Source : Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.15, Lulu.com
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“I'd rather see the world as a rainbow than endless shade of gray.”
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“Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.”
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Source : Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.699, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Source : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press
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