“With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?”
Felix Dennis“Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.”
Felix Dennis“With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?”
Felix Dennis“I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.”
Felix Dennis“No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.”
Felix Dennis“People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.”
Felix Dennis“As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.”
Felix Dennis“There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.”
Felix Dennis“Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.”
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