"I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite."

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Elaine Equi

#Writing Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way”
“I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.”
“Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.”
“Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.”
“Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.”
“Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and a lot of it, so they don't have a whole lot of free time on their hands.”

Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.76, Penguin
“It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there.”
“Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you wonâ€™t even have to tell yourself, because you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say, â€œTake me away.”

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