"I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me."

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Source : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr

Olga Broumas

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“I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.”
“It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.”
“She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.”
“Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.”

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“I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room. My grandmother always told me, 'Manners will take you where money won't.' When I walk into a room, I say "hello" to everyone I don't care who the person is or what they do, it's simply being respectful.”

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“I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.”
“Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.213, Atlantic Monthly Press
“The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly harmonics and dissonances as these are played into the life of the incarnating ego.”

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