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Natasha Trethewey Quote: “I know that my tendency is…”

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I’m trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in ‘Bellocq’s Ophelia’ my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it’s not linear, but it’s round in that way, and much of ‘Native Guard’ is like that.

August 22, 2019 1966, American, April 26, Natasha Trethewey, Quotes by Poets

Donald Hall Quote: “New poems no longer come to…”

New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

August 14, 2019 1928, American, Donald Hall, Quotes by Poets, September 20

Robert Frost Quote: “Style is that which indicates how…”

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

August 13, 2019 1874, American, March 26, Quotes by Poets, Robert Frost

May Sarton Quote: “Everything that slows us down and…”

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

August 8, 2019 1912, American, May 3, May Sarton, Quotes by Poets

Georg Simmel Quote: “The earliest phase of social formations…”

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

May 8, 2019 1858, Georg Simmel, German, March 1, Quotes by Sociologists
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