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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
Antony Gormley
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
Paul Muldoon
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.


Kim Weston
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Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Andres Segovia
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
John Perry Barlow
The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.
Megan Hilty
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That's the great thing about New York, there's always something to do.


Jessica Szohr
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The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.


Andy Taylor
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The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.


Sophie Kinsella
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That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.


Jeff Foxworthy
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The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.


Lester Bangs
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor
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The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.


Elton John
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In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.
Billy Collins
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I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.


Stockard Channing
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The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
Alistair Brownlee
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Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Donald Hall
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.


Felix Dennis
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