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Top 15 Matthew Zapruder Quotes (2025 Update)

Matthew Zapruder Quote: “Mahmoud Darwish wrote that “extreme clarity is a mystery.” That sounds right to me. I don’t want anyone hunting for anything ancillary to the true mystery. If that means risking being thought of as glib or dull or banal or stupid or whatever, I guess that will just have to be the way it is.”

1. “Mahmoud Darwish wrote that “extreme clarity is a mystery.” That sounds right to me. I don’t want anyone hunting for anything ancillary to the true mystery. If that means risking being thought of as glib or dull or banal or stupid or whatever, I guess that will just have to be the way it is.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.”

2. “Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less and less the more you think about them. So I’m going to have to go with the Gallagher brothers.”

3. “Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less and less the more you think about them. So I’m going to have to go with the Gallagher brothers.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter and composer, is the one who most fully inherited the musical legacy of our family, but I got some part of it – mostly the feel.”

4. “Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter and composer, is the one who most fully inherited the musical legacy of our family, but I got some part of it – mostly the feel.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “Of course I was drawn to the sun bears, they’re fascinating. But so are tigers and lots of other animals at the zoo. Probably a big part of the reason I felt so connected to them was because of their name: SUN BEAR.”

5. “Of course I was drawn to the sun bears, they’re fascinating. But so are tigers and lots of other animals at the zoo. Probably a big part of the reason I felt so connected to them was because of their name: SUN BEAR.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “Well, I believe that “thinking” is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of exploration. Maybe even more? So writing about “thought” to me is like writing about a tree or anything else real.”

6. “Well, I believe that “thinking” is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of exploration. Maybe even more? So writing about “thought” to me is like writing about a tree or anything else real.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “This poetry – the language stretching out to almost grasp what feels like an unstated truth, in ways one cannot paraphrase without doing reductive violence to the thinking – is also a kind of association, a leap in language across the void between what we think everyday and what we sense, in a deeper way, to be true.”

7. “This poetry – the language stretching out to almost grasp what feels like an unstated truth, in ways one cannot paraphrase without doing reductive violence to the thinking – is also a kind of association, a leap in language across the void between what we think everyday and what we sense, in a deeper way, to be true.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.”

8. “I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.”

9. “So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.”

10. “I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “I don’t know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They’re not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.”

11. “I don’t know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They’re not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “It’s a kind of de-familiarization in relation to the song: if she were to sing absolutely straight, right on the beat, because of the richness and intensity of her instrument – her voice – I think it could actually feel a little inhuman, too good somehow, separate from our concerns.”

12. “It’s a kind of de-familiarization in relation to the song: if she were to sing absolutely straight, right on the beat, because of the richness and intensity of her instrument – her voice – I think it could actually feel a little inhuman, too good somehow, separate from our concerns.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it’s true about poems, too.”

13. “Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it’s true about poems, too.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return.”

14. “Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “W. S. Merwin said, “Poetry addresses individuals in their most intimate, private, frightened and elated moments. People turn to poetry in times of crisis because it comes closer than any other art form to addressing what cannot be said. In expressing the inexpressible poetry remains close to the origins of language.”

15. “W. S. Merwin said, “Poetry addresses individuals in their most intimate, private, frightened and elated moments. People turn to poetry in times of crisis because it comes closer than any other art form to addressing what cannot be said. In expressing the inexpressible poetry remains close to the origins of language.”

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Matthew Zapruder Quote: “Poets are alchemists of nothingness. They aspire to turn silence, nothingness, absence, into something palpable.”

16. “Poets are alchemists of nothingness. They aspire to turn silence, nothingness, absence, into something palpable.”

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