"Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling."

-- Muriel Rukeyser

#Feelings Quotes #Approach Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.”
“Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.”
“What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.”
“No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.”
“We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.”
“However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.”
“I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.”
“Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.”

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