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- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020