"Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language"

-- Peter Porter

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“I don't have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.”
“To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.”

Source : James Dickey (1984). “Sorties”, p.69, LSU Press
“I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.”
“Being joyful is our natural state of being.”
“Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.”
“High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.”
“I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.”
“We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, lives at home, at work and at play to be lives of joy and peace.”

Source : Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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