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Fleur Adcock
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“There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But now that I am in love with a place which doesn’t care how I look, or if I’m happy,happy is how I look.”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I stopped writing poetry when I stopped smoking.... It was more complicated than that.”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days.”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My verse forms are relatively traditional (traditions alter). In general they have moved away from strict classical patterns in the direction of greater freedom — as is usual with most artists learning a trade. It takes courage, however, to leave all props behind, to cast oneself, like Matisse, upon pure space. I still await that confidence.”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps relationships work more powerfully when there is absence and tension and a lot of heartache. I can't live with people.”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All poets, all writers, are terrible parasites. We use people and experiences.”
Fleur Adcock (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source