Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular … - Duane Michals

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It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Duane Michals

Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

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I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and the quiet voice inside my head that says: isn't that extraordinary? The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows.

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One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

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You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?

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I don't get straight people, but I understand what they look like.

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Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if. . . '; And then do it.

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