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Quote by Tristan Tzara

“We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.”

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Tristan Tzara, born on April 16, 1896, and died on December 25, 1963, was a prominent poet. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, known for his unique poetic style and avant-garde artistic ideas that influenced later generations. more

“No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.”

Trying Matter Whole Facts Common Quality Solitude Negative Ultimate Make Sense Common Denominator Deep Friendship

Author:Feist

“I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Song Listening Grew Grew Up Beats Majority Glitter Gary Shuffle

Author:Martin Gore

“Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.”

Knows Jesus Stuff Sky Century Changed Bird Climbs Pupils

Book:Alcools: Poems

Source: Alcools: Poems

“A shilling life will give you all the facts.”

Giving Facts

Author:W. H. Auden

“How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.”

May Self Imagination Mad Defense Leisure Obliged Riot Self Defense Delicacy Vulgarity Luxurious

Book:Selected Letters of John Keats

Source: Selected Letters of John Keats

“The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.”

Suffering Psalms

Author:John Donne

“It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.”

May Quality Events Details Occasions Concrete Incidents Tangible Intangible Intangible Quality

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.”

Hands Passion House Lost Tree Land Deserve Stones Rose Dinner Beach Staring Tone Beast Hats Shore Hunters Chasing Wild Beasts

Book:Days and Nights

Source: Days and Nights

“The form is always the measure of the obsession.”

Form Obsession

Author:Alberto Giacometti

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