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The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Alone Based Between Circuit Exist Experience How Idea Kind Meaning Needs Place Poem Poems Poet Poetry Read Reader Takes You

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The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Ancient Bring Closer Complicated Describe Enabling Enlarging Experience Feel Greater Hearing New Our Poetry Precision Reading Should Simple Some Terms Think Us

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Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Casual Experience Frame Helps Intense Mind Poetry Process Start Writing

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The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

Topics: Brighter Casual Christ Christianity Commanding Creator Deeper Exalted Experience Fail Faith Holds Hopes More Most New New Testament Position Reader Resurrection Richer Scarcely See Stronger Testament

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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

~Edward Norton

Topics: Experience Just Lot Novelty Something Why

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If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

~Edward Norton

Topics: Direct Experience Feel Going Got Made Person Piece Really Special Them Then You

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I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

~Edward Norton

Topics: About Any Experience More Particularly Precious Theatrical

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Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic.

~Edward Ruscha

Topics: Book Different Europe Everything Experience Glamorous Happening Hope Kind Melody Much Nostalgic Off Part Planet Puts Road Side Some Sweet Traveling World

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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Because Certain Choices Community Experience Habits Hear Interpretation Language Largely Otherwise Our Our Community See Very

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The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

~Edward Steichen

Topics: Art Artist Content Creates Experience Form Gives Ideas Insight Least Medium Misleading Photography Say Term Thought Understanding Use Work

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