Christopher Logue quotes

“Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.”
-- Christopher Logue

Source : "Come to the Edge" l. 1 (1969)

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“Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.”
-- Christopher Logue

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“Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language.”
-- Christopher Logue

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“And he who is forever talking about enemies / Is himself the enemy!”
-- Christopher Logue

Source : Christopher Logue (2015). “War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad”, p.215, Faber & Faber

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“Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced”
-- Christopher Logue

“It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.”
-- Christopher Logue

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“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.”

“A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.”

“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”

“Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"”

Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.27, Penguin

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.”

“The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.”

“We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.53, Transaction Publishers

“Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?”