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american-poet partisan paul review thinks
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. Randall Jarrell
american-poet apparently best people
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends. Ogden Nash
american-poet side
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
american-poet life people
The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me. Mattie Stepanek
american-poet bird learn rather sing stars teach
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. e. e. cummings
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.
congress elected oriented people reality women
The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women. Gwen Moore
congress crime crimes department hate inclined justice review
The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time, ... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one. John Ashcroft
congress continue informed members respect terrorist
The appropriate members of Congress have been and continue to be informed with respect to the Terrorist Surveillance Program. Dana Perino
congress hurricane ourselves pay people sincere ways
The American people want Congress to find sincere ways to pay for Hurricane Katrina, and we are pressuring ourselves to get this done.
congress democrats ethical history intend lead open people restore voted
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. Nancy Pelosi
congress expect people spends
The American people know that our government's too big, and it spends too much. And they expect Congress to do something about it. John Boehner
congress issue
We could not arbitrarily do this on our own. This is an issue that Congress will have to decide.
congress create creates cuts events iraq passed people plan regard resulting spending tax terror
We have uncertainty resulting from international events -- the Iraq situation, as well as international terror -- while domestically, in Congress, we have done our part to create uncertainty with regard to spending policy, as well as tax policy, ... We passed some tax cuts that are going to expire, and that creates uncertainty when people plan for their future.
congress peaceful senators
To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.
himself holds ideal man though
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. Walter Lippmann
himself touch turned
The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.
himself leading prefer recognize
Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man. Patrick Modiano
himself michael
Michael Beauchamp I thought was outstanding tonight, and he's put himself right in calculations (for the World Cup). Graham Arnold
himself hope locked months pity room
Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.
himself knows michigan owes state
Who knows what he's going to do. It's two different programs. You go from Kent State to Michigan State, that's two different worlds. He owes it to himself to go there, take a look and see what they have to offer.
himself pressure
You let him be himself and try not to put any more pressure on him. Dusty Baker
himself jonathan nice since
Jonathan has come a long way since he was a little teenager. He's made himself into a real nice player. Bobby Cox
himself impressed last plays preparing role three time work
John's been preparing himself for this role for the last three years. This is his time to shine. He's really impressed us with his work ethic. He's got to make the plays that we know he can.
peculiar produces
Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years. Howard Bloom
peculiar life-is
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. Djuna Barnes
peculiar poet work written
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.' Helen Vendler
peculiar unusual
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride. James Lovegrove
peculiar unique
It's unique because of that. It's a peculiar sound.
peculiar year
This is a very peculiar year for flu.
peculiar
It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.
peculiar virtue
FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
peculiar sometimes habit
Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives. David Gerrold
poet proud
We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago. Richard Daley
poetry
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
poetry
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
poetry
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. Phoebe Snow
poet teacher time
As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to. Philip Schultz
poet poets useful
Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
poetry time
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. Edward Hirsch
poetry ted writes
Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people. Dave Evans
poetry served
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.
speaks
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter. Emile M. Cioran
speaks
On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind. Olga Kurylenko
speaks
To be that disciplined about it speaks volumes.
speaks-out political secret
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master. Chanakya
speaks-out careers voice
It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers. Chaka Khan
speaks-out willing direct
I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out. Bev Perdue
speaks-out water long
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! August Strindberg
speaks tongue truth
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth
speaks-out abuse excess
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right. Camille Paglia