David Baker
David Baker
American poet and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient whose poetry collections include Never-Ending Birds, Changeable Thunder, and The Truth about Small Towns. He also published several works of literary criticism.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 December 1954
CityBangor, ME
CountryUnited States of America
growth incredible past seen
We've seen incredible growth in the past two years.
time
When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
ego rather realize retrospect threat
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
budget million next year
The budget was over $10 million this year. Next year it will be a little over $11 million.
cease stop whatever
This lawlessness will cease and we will do whatever we have to do to stop this.
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I understand that the pieces of weapon were in hand luggage, but there were bullets in the (aircraft's baggage) hold,
takes
I will do what it takes to get through this year,
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by lifting road blocks and increasing freedom of movement, and the terrorists have exploited these humanitarian measures.
coup institute name practice somebody sounds theory
I can't think of anything else where somebody had a theory and a practice and an institute in their name and that there was a coup going on internally over it. This sounds nasty.
learned regular scales
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.
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The prime minister officially informed the Palestinians, as he did at the beginning of the negotiations, that nothing is agreed until everything has been agreed and therefore it is only signed agreements which are valid and binding.
ahead business looking
We?re here for the long haul, ... I don?t look back. I?m a business guy, always looking ahead to the future.