"The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then."

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Source : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.96, Library of America

May Swenson

#Summer Quotes #Long Quotes

“When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.”
“In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.”
“The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.”
“I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in himâ€”barelyâ€”so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.”
“I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.”
“I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.”
“We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.”
“It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.”

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