"Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another."

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Source : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

Diane Glancy

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“The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.”

Source : "Phyllis Schlafly Tells Republicans To Ignore Hispanic Voters, Focus On White People" by Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2013.
“For me, fasting has just been a huge part of everything God has done in my life, Fasting means I am putting everything on hold, and I am spending the time with God. It brings everything in focus, and I become eternity-minded.”
“I usually need to sit with pain a while. Really feel it. Then I need to talk it out. Luckily, I am surrounded by wonderful listeners who haven't told me to shut up yet.”
“I'm the type of player I am.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.”
“We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.”
“Mel Bochner was able to give me the tools to look at those types of experiences, register them with my own, but also hold them far enough away to see them 360.”
“The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being coy, or withholding information. It's allowing for multiple possibilities, recognizing the complexity of human behavior, and making the world of a piece of fiction as marvelously confounding as the world we live in.”

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