"20th century poetry is a piÃ±ata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it."

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Diane Glancy

#Poetry Quotes #Earth Quotes #Break Quotes

“One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.”
“She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.354, Macmillan
“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.”
“The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.”
“Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.”
“Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.”
“Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.”
“I love drama. I love to play an arc.”

Source : Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.

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