"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

James Dickey

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“I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.”
“Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.”

Source : "Once upon a life" by Athol Fugard, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.
“There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.”
“Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams”

Source : "Wisdom of the North American Indian in speech and legend". Book by Alexander Francis Chamberlain, 1913.
“What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.”
“Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.”
“It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .”

Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Impending Revolution”, p.18
“As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.”

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