"Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem."

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Billy Collins

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“For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.”
“Mars is not an aesthetic God.”

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”
“Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.”
“People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do.”
“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”

Source : Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”
“You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.”
“No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
“I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.”

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