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
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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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We've got thousands and thousands of trees that could be falling in any good windstorm. They won't all come down at once it's just something to think about any time you're out in the fire area.
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We wouldn't miss this. This is the best thing since sliced bread.
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Big business should be cognizant of blending in with the community and the people who are buying the product,
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Much more than America, much more than Europe, China really does look at the very, very long-term view,
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Because of the type of water it was, there won't be any kind of environmental impact.
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Natural gas prices are on the rise and will continue to rise, an 84 percent increase in price.
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Last year we had about 160 people. This year, we're hoping for 200.
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When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
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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.
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We've seen incredible growth in the past two years.