Alice Fulton Quotes
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I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".
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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
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Emotion is the best mnemonic device.
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At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
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Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.
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Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
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Anguish is the universal language.
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Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.
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While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.
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