"Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without"

-- A. R. Ammons

#Years Quotes #Imagine Quotes #Hundred Quotes

“They have vilified me, they have crucified me. Yes, they have even criticized me.”

Source : "Chicago Journal; Syntax Is a Loser in Mayoral Race" by William E. Schmidt, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 1989.
“Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems,”
“I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.
“The ways we miss our lives are life.”

Source : Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.”
“Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.”

Source : Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.12, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
“I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time.”

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