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20 Cards in this Set
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“.. there are neither maps nor exercises to help us find the duende. We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass, that he exhausts, that he rejects all the sweet geometry we have learned, that he smashes styles, that he leans on human pain with no consolation..”
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(Lorca)
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“She had to rob herself of skill and security, send away her muse and become helpless, that her duende might come and deigh to fight her hand-to-hand. And how she sang! Her voice was no longer playing. It was a jet of blood worthy of her pain and her sincerity…”
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(Lorca writing about a performance by La Nina de los Peines)
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“It’s the music that the words are sung to that’s important. I write the songs because I need something to sing. It’s the difference between the words on paper and the song. The song disappears into the air, the paper stays. They have little in common. A great poet, like Wallace Stevens, doesn’t necessarily make a great singer. But a great singer always- like Billie Holiday- makes a great poet.”
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(Dylan)
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“It is very important to get poetry out of the hands of the professor and..the squares…If we can get poetry out into the life of the country, it can be creative…”
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(Kenneth Rexroth)
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“All arts are capable of duende, but where it finds greatest range, naturally, is in music, dance, and spoken poetry, for these arts require a living body to interpret them, being forms that are born, die, and open their contours against an exact present”
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(Lorca)
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“Very often intellect is poetrys enemy because it is too much given to imitation, because it lifts the poet to a throne of sharp edges and makes him oblivious of the fact that he may suddenly be devoured by ants, or a great arsenic lobster may fall on his head.”
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(Lorca)
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“Duende involves a kind of elation when death is present in the room, it is associated with “dark” sounds, and when a poet has duende inside him, he brushes past death with each step, and in that presence associates fast. The gypsy flamenco dancer is associating fast when she dances, and so is Bach writing his Cantatas.”
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(Robert Bly)
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“Powerful feeling makes the mind associate faster, and evidently the presence of swift association makes the emotions still more alive; it increases the adrenaline flow, just as chanting awakens many emotions that the chanter was hardly aware of at the moment he begun chanting”
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(Robert Bly)
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“In ancient times, in the ‘time of inspiration’, the poet flew from one world to another, ‘riding on the dragons’, as the Chinsese said…this dragon smoke means that a leap can be described as a leap from the conscious to the unciousnes and back again, a leap from the known part of the mind to the unknown part and back to the known.”
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(Robert Bly)
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“I am just a voice speaking. Any time I’m singing about people and if the songs are dreamed, its like my voice is coming out of their dream.”
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(Dylan)
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“…they were trying to make me an insider, on some trip they were on; I don’t think so.”
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(Dylan)
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“…you know him, he’s yours…”
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(Announcer before Dylan sang)
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“poetry of inspiration, with no necessary external referents and with an internal logic of its own.”
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(Lorca)
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“An artist has got to be careful never to really arrive at a place where he thinks he’s at, somewhere..you always have to realize you’re constantly in the state of becoming…”
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(Dylan)
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“…and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop…”
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(Mario Savio)
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“In those days artistic success was not dollar-driven…those were simpler times, if you had something to say, which is basically the way people were rated…”
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(Bob Neuwirth)
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“What struck me is that he was at-one or he became identical with his breath. Dylan had become a column of air, so to speak, and at certain moments where his total physical and mental focus was this single breath coming out of his body. He had found a way in public to be almost like a shaman, with all of his intelligence and consciousness focused on his breath…”
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(Ginsberg)
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“That’s what he’s good at, is getting used to the way things are. I mean he understands that time changes everything.”
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(D.A. Pennebaker)
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“No, I’ll be busy tonight.”
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(Dyaln)
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“Get me a new Bob Dylan.”
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(Dylan)
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