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.
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 en… - David Lehman
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 en…
- David Lehman
If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. - David Lehman
If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.
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 … - David Lehman
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 …
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wa… - David Lehman
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wa…
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one own… - David Lehman
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one own…
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is no… - David Lehman
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is no…
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superio… - David Lehman
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superio…
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that,… - David Lehman
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that,…
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul. - David Lehman
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
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