"I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form."

-- Simone Muench

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“If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?”

Source : Song: I Wonder What Would Happen To This World, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978
“Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.”
“A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, 'You guys are gay, right?”
“Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.”

Source : Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
“There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.”
“I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true.”

Source : "amas Leader Khaled Mash'al at a Damascus Mosque: The Nation of Islam Will Sit at the Throne of the World and the West Will Be Full of Remorse When It Is Too Late". Address at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus, www.memri.org. February 3, 2006.
“It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama.”

Source : Albert Pinkham Ryder (1961). “Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961”
“Noblest minds are easiest bent.”

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