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16 Cards in this Set
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“…he not busy being born/Is
busy dying…” |
dylans lyrics for its alright ma
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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…” |
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…” |
lorca about la nina de los peines performance
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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.” |
dylan
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-- “It is very important to get poetry out of the hands
of the professors and…the squares…If we can get poetry out into the life of the country, it can be creative…” |
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.” |
lorca
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“Very often intellect is poetry’s 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.” |
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.” |
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 adrenalin flow, just as chanting awakens many emotions that the chanter was hardly aware of at the moment he began chanting.” |
robert bly
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“In ancient times, in the ‘time of inspiration’, the
poet flew from one world to another, ‘riding on dragons’, as the Chinese said…this dragon smoke means that a leap has taken place in the poem… that leap can be described as a leap from the conscious to the unconscious and back again, a leap from the known part of the mind to the unknown part and back to the known.” |
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, it’s like my voice is coming out of their dream.” |
dylan
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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…” |
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 @ protest
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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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allen ginsberg (beat poet) (in no direction home both young age and old age)
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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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