"I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read my students' poems my first impulse is to say, "O, the subject of this pronoun, this 'I,' is whatever kid wrote this poem." The audience for lyric poems is "confessionalized" to some extent. And I think this audience tends to find long narrative poems, for instance, kind of bewildering."

-- Shane McCrae

#Mean Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.”
“Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!”
“Our aspirations are our responsibilities.”
“The paradox in China is that while some things change very rapidly, others don't. The appearance of its cities may be entirely different, but the inner workings behind these changes still persist: the regulation of society, the hierarchies of power, the relationship of the individual to the majority.”
“It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.”
“I firmly believe that the inequity [in society] is enormous. The people have the feeling that you are allowed to do anything if you are rich. But if you're poor, you have to pay. We [Europeans] have to counter this.”
“Each time a woman has the courage to act and share her truth, she plants wonderful seeds. Each such seed offers freedom and power to those around her, and in this way we bring the world closer together and closer to peace.”
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”

Source : Reader's Digest, Volume 111, No. 666, October 1977.

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