You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. - Kenneth Koch

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It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.

Kenneth Koch

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

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All poetry comes from repetition.

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The subject matter of the stories on the surface. . . there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

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Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

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When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

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It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

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David Puttnam

In the U. K. , the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

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In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

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