"Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poets do] might not be a real, authentic poet."

-- Kim Hyesoon

#Real Quotes #Voice Quotes #Might Quotes

“The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.”
“He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave; Whence those impetuous currents in the main Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.”
“Very few of us are what we seem.”

Source : Agatha Christie (1995). “Partners in crime”
“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
“Itâ€™s like someone who prays every night saying Godâ€™s a good listener. Just because youâ€™re talking to us doesnâ€™t mean weâ€™re listening. With me and God, you never really know.”
“I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.”
“But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.”

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