"A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession."

-- Jorie Graham

#Stories Quotes #Matter Quotes #Confession Quotes

“The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.”
“You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.”
“I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years.”
“He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.”

Source : Harry Emerson Fosdick (1946). “On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity”, New York ; London [Eng.] : Harper & Brothers
“I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.”
“Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.”
“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”
“Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses. ~Kyoya”

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