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“Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.”

Men Writing Hands Together Poetry Stuff Pieces Cups Beast Pie Coal Rotten Writing Poetry Wild Beasts

Book:Windows that open inward: images of Chile

Source: Windows that open inward: images of Chile

“I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.”

Way Hard Poetry Literature Stuff Doors Rocks Particular Music Is Gun Rose Loud Another Way Metallica Hard Rock Guns N Roses Loud Music

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines," on the Shadows & Light album, was about sitting next to a dry cleaner from Des Moines, playing a slot machine.”

Ifs Writing Light Poetry Next Stuff Talking Poet Sitting Shadow Machines Albums Dry Songwriters Cleaners Soda Slot Machines Lyricists Des Moines Dry Cleaners

Author:Don Alias

“My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.”

Has Beens Able Poetry Stuff Novel Musician Jazz Meant To Be Jazz Music Jazz Musician

Author:Ishmael Reed

“'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Said I Can Book Hard Hands Poetry Stuff Easier Folks Repeats Stretching Humpty Dumpty

Author:Lewis Carroll

“I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.”

Wells Real Poetry Easy Stuff Behinds Blood Essentials Elements Endure Complicated Intense Sweat Thick Dense Blood And Sweat

Book:Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey

Source: Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey