Quote by Roger Waters
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativit

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if hes going to write poetry or songs. – Roger Waters

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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the bodys final fall, nor the barrels of deaths rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. – Roger Waters

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Death
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Its a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of Late Home Tonight, where theres Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. – Roger Waters

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Home
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I could have been an architect, but I dont think Id have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. – Roger Waters

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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. – Mark Strand

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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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