"Poetry contains nothing haphazard."

--

William Empson

“Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.”
“For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.”

Source : Source: www.neh.gov
“When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.”
“The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.”
“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”
“We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.”
“I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.”

Source : "Charles Kennedy" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2005.
“Heaven? That has no hold over me.”

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