"To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you'll realize that "yes, it reaches out. It meant that, too." Then all of a sudden you'll get a rhyme and the rhyme will throw up a whole new way of looking at things. It's this relationship that you never dreamed of."

-- Mary Ann Hoberman

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Way Quotes

“I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.”
“Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.”
“China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.”

Source : Press Conference with President Obama and President Hu of the People's Republic of China, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 19, 2011.
“Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.”

Source : Joan Walsh Anglund (1990). “Crocus in the Snow: A Book of Poems”, Random House Incorporated
“The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.”
“... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.”
“Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.”
“The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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