"Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,"

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Source : "Poet Marie Howe On 'What The Living Do' After Loss". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 19, 2011.

Marie Howe

“I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.”
“What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.”
“In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.”
“Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.”
“The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.”

Source : "Fauci: Despite 'AIDS fatigue,' Americans should care". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2007.
“You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice!”
“All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Lots of choc'late for me to eat; Lots of coal makin' lots of heat. Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still! I would never budge 'til Spring crept over my window sill. Someone's head restin' on my knee; Warm and tender as he can be, Who takes good care of me; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.”
“The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.”

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