Ruth Whitman Quotes

• Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.

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  Faces   Apologizing   Worn  

  Ruth Whitman (1990). “Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990”, p.66, Wayne State University Press

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• In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

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  Art   Beginners   Art Is  

  Ruth Whitman (1982). “Becoming a poet: source, process, practice”, Writer

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• In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.

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  Art   Real   Drawing  

  Ruth Whitman (1982). “Becoming a poet: source, process, practice”, Writer

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• I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

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  Time   Littles   Surprise  

  Ruth Whitman (1990). “Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990”, p.26, Wayne State University Press

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