"How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark."

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Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.14, Macmillan

Dana Gioia

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“I have love in my life, a soul mate u2014u00a0absolutely. When someone asked me why Angie and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it u2014u00a0hate mail from religious groups. I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.”
“Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!”
“We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.”
“I'm saying that I believe Paula Jones, is what i'm saying. And I believe that that $14,000 a year Arkansas State employee being brought up to the governor's hotel room and him exposing herself as all the evidence said.”
“No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play”
“I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.”

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