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Quote by Jeffrey Kluger

“Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.”

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Jeffrey Kluger

Jeffrey Kluger is an American writer born in 1954. He is known for his in-depth reporting on science, technology, and cultural phenomena, and has won numerous awards for his work. Kluger has served as an editor and columnist for several prominent media outlets, including Time magazine and Scientific American. His writing style is characterized by clarity, wit, and insight. more

“I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with the word. But ferocious - indeed, I'll take it. And yes, poetry does need a bit of ferocity. Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity - the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.”

Violence Trouble Violent Complexity Negativity

Author:Alex Lemon

“I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to them all of the electric complexity. Each one fails at this, of course, but I keep trying - adoring each of them, loving the process, the ebb and flow of it - and each time, the failures fail a bit better.”

Thinking Giving Trying Failing Complexity Electric Vessel

Author:Alex Lemon

“I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.”

Writing Challenges Prose

Author:Alex Lemon

“The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.”

Creative Prose Poetic Sensibility

Author:Alex Lemon