"In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else."

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Kim Hyesoon

#Priorities Quotes #Rhythm Quotes

“I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.”
“Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I like poems that are daggers that sing.”
“When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.”

Source : Harry Stack Sullivan (1940). “Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry: The First William Alanson White Memorial Lectures”
“A rolling stone can gather no moss.”
“Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.”
“When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.”
“History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.”

Source : Informing Statecraft (1992).

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