"I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things."

-- Martha Ronk

#Thinking Quotes #Training Quotes #Way Quotes

“Dogs never bite me - just humans.”
“self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.”

Source : Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers
“While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.”
“Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.”
“They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
“Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.”
“Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.”
“Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.”

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