"After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#Moving Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil. 'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't do it properly. I'm touchy about these things.”
“Life is less than nothing without love.”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.546
“It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.”
“I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.”

Source : Source: www.onetvasia.com
“My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world”
“This is a beautiful and hopeful time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world is needed more than ever. All of your struggles, all the struggles of your ancestors, all the struggles of all life have led to this moment right now. You are the culmination of life's great yearning; you are the hope of the world.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jul 13, 2014
“The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.”

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