"the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds."

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Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.23, Open Road Media

Nancy Willard

#Beauty Quotes #Stars Quotes #Bird Quotes

“It's really a situation [ Donald Trump's children are involved now in choosing the next government] that no other president had in years and years. He clearly is not going to follow the idea that - generally there is no rule that requires this but there generally is a situation which people are required to put their interests to the side so they don't have a conflict.”

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“One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.”
“I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.”
“I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.”

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“The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces.”
“For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also exponents of a doctrine of mystery: Being or the 'well-spring' of everything is, for Heidegger, ineffable, just as what Merleau-Ponty called 'Flesh' is for him.”
“Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she's just this person who blows out of the screen. She's just incredible.”

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“I just want to continue to play football and be myself.”

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