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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 dictate enter fixed initial magnetic orbit owns spin wider
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. David Lehman
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 criticized english poet poets recently
American poets have been criticized for anything you can think of. For being too English, recently for not being English enough. 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 game good players rightly stepped
They were criticized a little bit, rightly so. They stepped their game up and that's what good players do when they're put in that position. Andy Reid
criticized critics-and-criticism delayed invalid project wholly
It is unfortunate that this most important project has been criticized and delayed for wholly invalid reasons. John Sheridan
criticized fair mean rather ray speak truth
Ray criticized some things I did on the track. Fair enough, he wasn't mean about it but I'd rather have someone speak the truth to me any day than tell me different. Erin Crocker
criticized full path sinful treading
A person treading on the sinful path is not only criticized but is also full of blemishes. Rig Veda
criticized
I've already been criticized by some on the right and that's okay,
criticized painful public son understand
I understand what it is like to have one's son criticized in a very public way. It's very painful and it's very difficult. Nick Clooney
criticized proved throughout time
We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.
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-scientist
Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.
englishmen
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say? Alan Sugar
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
english-athlete press
I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom. Nick Faldo
english-athlete
I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove. Lennox Lewis
english-actress
While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it. Dinah Sheridan
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
poet reader great-poet
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poet invention conscious
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. C. S. Lewis
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. Natasha Trethewey
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry humanity
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
poets since
But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love. William Shakespeare
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