Gregory Pardlo quotes
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“Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.”
-- Gregory PardloSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.”
-- Gregory PardloSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.”
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“On top of whatever else I'm doing, I'm usually teaching some form of composition. The benefit of this is I get to read across disciplines. Often enough that work spills over to my creative reading/thinking, and I reach a point of saturation where I can't distinguish between texts and writers and everything starts to blur and smudge together.”
-- Gregory PardloSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.”
-- Gregory PardloSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.”
-- Gregory PardloSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”
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“The simplest answer is to act.”
Source : "Everybody Sees the Ants". Book by A.S. King, 2011.
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“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.”
Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
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“Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.”
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“Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”
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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
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“Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.”
Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
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