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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – 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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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. – 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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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. – Adrienne Rich

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You dont make a poem with ideas, but with words. – Stephane Mallarme

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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. – Walter Jon Williams

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote

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May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. – Pierre de Coubertin

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