"I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say."

-- Campbell McGrath

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“A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.”
“I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.”
“If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again”

Source : "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book edited by James L. Harmon, 2007.
“You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.”
“I don't understand how someone can MAKE love without BEING in love.”
“I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
“The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the tears rejoice Because they can flow and flow. Sweetbrier around Moscow, Alas! Somehow it is here ... And all this they will call Love eternal.”

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