Quotes by Fred D'Aguiar

Fred D'Aguiar

At bottom, I’m a cheerful person.

Bottom

Cheerful

Persons

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

Emotion

Feelings

Writing

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Fighting

Path

Trying

Eliot said that “genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.

Argument

Emotional

Understanding

I can’t stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can’t be an idea for me – it has to be a felt thing.

Book

Ideas

Years

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

Disaster

Feelings

Lessons

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I’m in the postmodern age.

Age

Facts

Museums

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

Laughter

Policy

Thinking

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don’t romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you’re suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you’ll learn some hard lessons.

Suffering

Thinking

Views

I usually feel something before I know it.

Feels

Knows

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Agency

Air

Answers

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Bed

Betrayed

Body

Book

Bottom

Breathing

Character

Cheerful

Children

Disaster

Emotion

Emotional

Factories

Facts

Father

Feelings

Feels

Fiction

Fighting

Firsts

Get Back

Grandmother

Grief

Guarantees

Guides

Hands

Historical

Ideas

Ifs

Imaginative

Independent

Kids

Kind

Knows

Laughter

Lessons

Moments

Moving

Museums

Path

People

Persons

Policy

Privilege

Realism

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Quotes by Fred D'Aguiar

Fred D'Aguiar

At bottom, I’m a cheerful person.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Eliot said that “genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.

I can’t stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can’t be an idea for me – it has to be a felt thing.

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I’m in the postmodern age.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don’t romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you’re suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you’ll learn some hard lessons.

I usually feel something before I know it.

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