"Life is about timing."

-- Carl Lewis

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“I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is too serpentine to offer instant poem reactions. I can however stand back and examine the deeper ground, or at least that's what I hope my poems are doing. I believe contemplation can be an ethical act and literature can be a profound agent of cultural change, so I hope in some way my poems expand the conversations about environmental decline and social responsibility.”
“Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.”
“I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.”

Source : John Davis Long (1956). “Journal”
“I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.”
“The man believes the woman's got the hidden secret. That's a rare thing. You meet lots of people, and they're all deserved of love, of course, but romantic love involves some kind of supplement: she has the secret. That's what's desired.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.”

Source : Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster
“What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?”
“I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.”

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