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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

~David Lehman

Topics: Away Dictate Electron Enter Field Fixed How Initial Like Magnetic Meaning Orbit Owns Proprietary Right Single Spin Them Used Wider Will Words

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If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

~David Lehman

Topics: Emergency Emergency Room Health Pay Paying Plan Room Through You

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Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

~David Lehman

Topics: Artist Cripple Criticism Determined Does Heights Her Him Inflict Intent Mean New Poetry Spirit Spiteful Spur Today Will Worst Wound

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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

~David Lehman

Topics: Good Hostile Injure Only Reviews Sensibility Soul Time Too Writing You Your

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The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

~David Lehman

Topics: Admiration Best Both Brilliant Envy Humorous Lyrics Matched Me Only Passion Seem Song Warm Wit

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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