#concrete

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

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I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. ↗

— James Laughlin

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We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do. ↗

— Eric Liu

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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet ↗

— Tupac Shakur

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Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism. ↗

— Bob Hawke

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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