"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."

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Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

M. H. Abrams

#Mean Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Body Quotes

“What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job titleâ€”whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.”

Source : "Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?" by Marc Malkin, www.eonline.com. June 25, 2012.
“Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire”
“My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.”
“No matter how deep the issue is and no matter how long you have struggled with it, the possibility exists for you to become absolutely free, whole, and healed.”

Source : Brandon Bays (2012). “The Journey: A Practical Guide to Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.”

Source : Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley (2011). “The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B”, p.531, Cambridge University Press
“I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200 meters on Friday. After this I have the 4Ã—100-meter and a few other races before the end of the season.”
“If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?”
“I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I don't really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.”

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