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David Bowie: 'I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.'

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David Bowie: 'I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.'

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David Bowie: 'Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.'

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David Bowie: 'Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.'

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David Bowie: 'For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.'

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David Bowie: 'I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.'

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David Bowie: 'Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.'

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David Bowie: 'I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.'

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David Bowie: 'When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.'

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David Bowie: 'I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.'

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David Bowie: 'My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.'

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David Whyte: 'When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.'

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David Whyte: 'It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.'

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David Whyte: 'The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.'

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David Whyte: 'The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.'

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David Whyte: 'We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.'

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David Whyte: 'The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.'

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David Whyte: 'Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.'

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David Whyte: 'We're moving toward the kind of work world which has less security. But we hope it has more creativity and possibility of real engagement.'

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David Whyte: 'Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.'

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