August Kleinzahler quotes
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“I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated apartment with meatballs and a decent Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge.”
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“There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.”
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“The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.”
-- August Kleinzahler
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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
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“The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.”
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“Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.”
Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.43, Penguin
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“There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.”
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“Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.”
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“If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...”
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