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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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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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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. – Laurie Lee

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man cant touch. – E. M. Forster

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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. – Joseph Brodsky

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Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. – Lafcadio Hearn

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