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last updated: November 28, 2023

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.
-- Adam Ross

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I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
-- Cate Marvin

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“For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.”
“Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.”
“I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people. There can be no cause or grievance that could ever justify such unspeakable violence. Indeed, such an attack is an assault not only on the targets but an offense against the freedom and rights of all civilized nations.”
“A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.”
“I've always felt my role in life was to be a mentor. If I can do that with a younger generation, that's my goal.”
“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”
“The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child, Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.”
“I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.”

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“The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.”
“If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.”