"I write poems to find out why I write them"

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Source : Stephen Dobyns (2013). “Winter's Journey”, p.81, Copper Canyon Press

Stephen Dobyns

#Writing Quotes

“I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.”
“Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas”
“When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.”
“Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes.”
“The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.”
“When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.”
“Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.”
“I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.”

Source : "Seven Ways Electronic Books Will Make Us Better Readers" by Steve Leveen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

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