"I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!"

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Source : Margarita Engle (2012). “The Wild Book”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Margarita Engle

#Ordinary Quotes #Way Quotes #Soar Quotes

“Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.”

Source : "Martyn Pig".
“Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.”
“I think most people live in the past, because current information is discarded or not made available easily.”
“I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.”
“I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.”
“When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.”
“Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.”
“I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.”

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