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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – 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 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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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer…. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E.B. White

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Poetry

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. – June Jordan

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Poetry

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. – Fred Durst

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Poetry

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In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I cant stand it. – Anthony Hopkins

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Home

Its a question of keeping ones eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. Theyre watching me too, to see what my attitude is like. – Charles Dance

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Attitude

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine

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Music

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under ones nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ. – W. H. Auden

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Talent