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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

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

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Poetry
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Im not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent – you cant just do it like that. – Samantha Morton

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Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. – William Rose Benet

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Poetry

The mystical poetry of William Blakes artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. – Bruce Dickinson

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Poetry

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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