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poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry despair born
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
poetry has-beens
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
poetry mastery logic
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. James Russell Lowell
poetry would-be world
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Muriel Rukeyser
poetry poetic breathe
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
poetry letters jest
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest. Ovid
poetry phrases meter
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.... Nikki Giovanni
speech honest emotion
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it. Robert Orben
speech free-speech
We shouldn't have free speech. Robin Quivers
speech whisky havens
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. Winston Churchill
speech saws kind
We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw. Wendell Berry
speech common remember
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. W. Somerset Maugham
speech nine pounds
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. Joseph Addison
speech association should
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. Mahatma Gandhi
speech
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
speech language ritual
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. Ellen Goodman