"With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making."

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Douglas Florian

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“God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.”

Source : John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail
“Standing under freezing cold showers every morning, - I did that. I got up to seven minutes most mornings, and it actually works; it immunizes your body, and your body starts getting used to the cold. It really works."”
“Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.”
“I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world.”

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“It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.”
“Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.”

Source : "Tomorrow when Barbara Walters exits ‘The View,’ we say bye to Baba Wawa" by Marc Silver, www.washingtonpost.com. May 15, 2014.
“My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.”

Source : "Aging" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.
“But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests - indefinitely and without reward - and not feel obliged to apologize for it!”

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