"My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me ..."

-- Lucy Larcom

#Poetry Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes #May Quotes

“Everything is as important as everything else.”
“Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.”
“In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.”

Source : "So Much For That". Interview with Bret Anthony Johnston, www.nationalbook.org. 2010.
“I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.”
“All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.”
“My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.”
“Theodore Roosevelt regarded leadership as his one gift, the area in which he might be considered to possess genius. He presented his views on leadership throughout his voluminous writings. He intended for future writers to study them with an eye toward action, as he himself had done of historic figures.”

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