"I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them."

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Anne Stevenson

#Real Quotes #Mean Quotes #Simple Quotes

“When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.”
“Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.”

Source : "Married Love". Poems of the War and After, 1934.
“There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.”

Source : William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.28, Courier Corporation
“Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.”

Source : Anodea Judith (2012). “Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System”, p.201, Llewellyn Worldwide
“You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.”
“Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.”
“The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.”
“I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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