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Douglas Dunn Quotes
Page 1 of 1Douglas Dunn
October 23, 1942 -
Nationality: Scottish
Category: Poet
Subcategory: Scottish Poet
|  I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why. | | A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. | | I've always thought my poems told stories. | | A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem. | | The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence. | | Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. |
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