David Patterson Quote

Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.

David Patterson

Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.

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About David Patterson

David Patterson may refer to:

David Patterson (computer scientist) (born 1947), American professor of computer science at UC Berkeley
Dave Patterson (born 1956), American baseball player
David Patterson (guitarist) (born 1966), American guitarist who was a founding member of the New World Guitar Trio
David Patterson (American football) (born 1985), defensive lineman for the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Atlanta Falcons
David J. Patterson (born 1950), Irish biologist
David P. Patterson (c.1840–1879), director of New Jersey and New York Railroad, and a town father of Hillsdale, New Jersey
David T. Patterson (1818–1891), American politician; Democrat from Tennessee; in U.S. Senate 1866–69
David Allen Patterson, professor, researcher, author and Native American advocate
David Patterson (historian), who mainly researches the Holocaust, Jewish thought, and antisemitism