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Quote by Stephen Dobyns

“Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.”

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Stephen Dobyns is an American poet born on February 19, 1941. His poetry is known for its profound emotion and rich imagination, covering a wide range of themes including love, death, history, and religion. more

“For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying.”

Years Has Beens Past Trouble Serious Intention Comic Thirty Rejects Earnest Seriousness Thirty Years Earnestness American Poetry

Book:Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry

Source: Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry

“I write poems to find out why I write them”

Writing

Book:Winter's Journey

Source: Winter's Journey

“Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.”

I Can Can Do Can Do Something Speeding Cars

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.”

Humans Two Human Beings Rooms Window

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.”

World Looks Ends Church White Degrees Tables Make Sense Radiant Reunion Satellites

Book:Wind in a Box

Source: Wind in a Box

“I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.”

People Thinking Way Trying Kind Feelings Might Language Levels Impossible Music Is Models Expectations Communicate Primaries Composition Chasing

Author:Terrance Hayes

“Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.”

Beautiful Lines Masters Complexes Fascinating

Author:Gerald Stern

“Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.”

Firsts Body Night Sun Psychology Tomorrow Towns Down And Fishes Astronomy Clock Biology Layers Rainbow Blanket Zoology Gazelles

Book:Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems

Source: Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems

“Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”

Ifs Want Needs Giving Return Repayment

Author:Lindsey Davis

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