"I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why."

-- Diane Wakoski

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Without a purpose, nothing should be done.”
“My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.”

Source : "Saturday interview: Lucy Lawless - Xena the Ecowarrior" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
“Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations,”
“You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.”
“I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.”
“There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.”
“Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.”

Source : Neil Peart (2002). “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road”, p.354, ECW Press
“Those who are most able to buy what you have to sell are those who most demand that you agree with them.”

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