"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."

-- Mary Oliver

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“If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.”
“I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.”
“I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.”
“When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.”
“Any time Iâ€™m not shooting my mouth off to a clichÃ©d, two-bit creature of the night like you, itâ€™s because Iâ€™m up to something.”
“The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.”

Source : "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience" by Sam Hinton, Western Folklore, 14.3, July 1965.
“Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.”
“Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art.”

Source : Linda Barnes (2013). “A Trouble of Fools”, p.39, Macmillan

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