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american-poet brought poems
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser
american-poet itself shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. Marianne Moore
american-poet god
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. Amiri Baraka
american-poet art finally forces revere understanding
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
american-poet
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
american-poet dull nature rigid school torture unknown weary wild
Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down. John Whittier
american-poet bows enthusiasm heart spirit turns wrinkle wrinkles
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Samuel Ullman
american-poet basically edited essential feminist grant literary supported
When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there. Marilyn Hacker
american-poet change eighty people
Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry. Philip Levine
criticized president spent
We spent more than the president requested, and we were criticized for pork-barrel spending, Bob Bennett
criticized crush dream dreams foolish giving half people special whenever
Whenever we dream out loud, were criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are. As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance. Barbara Sher
criticized critics-and-criticism demanded last maps quality rand simplicity sort
Last year, we were criticized for the simplicity of the maps. This is the sort of quality with maps that we demanded when I was with Rand McNally. Dave Marsh
criticized good wave white
We were broadly criticized by some, especially in the Senate, ... We did not back up. We did not wave the white flag. We did not retreat. ... I think this is a good bill. Dennis Hastert
criticized enjoy man stories style trying
I was always criticized for style and content, but I enjoy trying to tell stories a different way, particularly with this movie, Man On Fire. Tony Scott
criticized proven
We take that as motivation. We've been criticized all year, but we've proven them all wrong.
criticized super win
He's been criticized for not being able to win the big one and not being able to get back to the Super Bowl. So I think it's great. Jerome Bettis
criticized marty wrong
Marty got criticized for all the wrong reasons. Marty always cared. Marty was still Marty inside. Brad Richards
criticized decision eric harshly
I was harshly criticized for the decision to make Eric Gagne a closer,
english-actress reading screwed virginia woman
Ultimately, I just approached her as a young woman who's pretty screwed up, and I started reading Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. Saffron Burrows
english-athlete
There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.
english france french home met spoke student teaching until visited
We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement. Joanne Harris
english-writer whom
As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred. Margaret Cavendish
english-scientist
Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.
englishmen
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say? Alan Sugar
english-novelist geriatric pleasure
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. John Mortimer
english houses possible spot triumphant
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? Alexander Herzen
english-athlete good
He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be. Mark Lawrenson
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poet companion whole-life
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
poet represent size sound thus universal
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poet negotiation range
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader. Edward Hirsch
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
poet reader great-poet
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell
poetic invisible feels
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? Diablo Cody
poets since
But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love. William Shakespeare
poets simply words
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words John Fowles
recently
A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me. Janis Ian
recently stocks
Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.
recently
My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters. Evanna Lynch