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1 " I composed balanced sentences and periodic sentences and practiced, till I was blue in the face, the English department adage, Vary your sentence structure. Amazingly enough, having a mix of long and short sentences, along with topic-body-conclusion paragraph structure, did not automatically make my prose interesting. "
― Douglas Glover , Attack of the Copula Spiders: Essays on Writing
2 " There are two kinds of courage: the courage that holds things together and the courage that throws them away. The first is more common; it is the cement of civilization; it is Lucy's. The second is the courage of drunks and suicides and mystics. "
― Douglas Glover , Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon
3 " The enemy is conventional language; the antidote is poetry and mild intoxicants. "
4 " A person who believes in a particular conceptual system believes that everything can be explained by reference to that conceptual system. Whereas the artist sees the pattern and feels the mystery that looms beyond the pattern. […] Great art is pattern over mystery, it is juggling words over whirlpools of silence. "
― Douglas Glover
