"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together"

-- Roger McGough

#Thinking Quotes #Yes You Can Quotes #Together Quotes

“Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.”
“Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.”
“I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.”
“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.”
“I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance , insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.”
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

Source : O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)
“Because this is our life. We met on the road; we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.”
“I want to walk like Iâ€™m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.”

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