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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. -

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – Walter Mosley

Other quotes by Walter Mosley

When you deal with a person whos experiencing dementia, you can see where theyre struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how theyre trying to remember. – Walter Mosley

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Knowledge
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I think that people dont know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, I know how to hire someone. – Walter Mosley

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car
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. – Walter Mosley

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War
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Poetry
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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – James Dickey

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Poetry

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. – T. S. Eliot

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Poetry

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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Poetry

A sold poem loses half its meaning. – Terri Guillemets

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Poetry

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I think that the core doctrines of Christianity – the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century. – Andrew Greeley

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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. – Garrison Keillor

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