"The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better."

-- Harriet Monroe

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“History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.116, Univ of California Press
“I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backwards thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.”
“Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.”

Source : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.495, Library of America
“I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.”

Source : Patricia Heaton (2002). “Motherhood and Hollywood: How To Get a Job Like Mine”, p.117, Villard
“Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.”
“The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.”
“I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.”

Source : Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.265, Macmillan
“When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.”

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