"Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem."

-- Maya Angelou

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“My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.”
“We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a herd of bodies/until one becomes home./Moments sweep past. The grass bends/then learns again to stand.”
“I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.”
“The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.”
“One of Buddhismâ€™s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.”
“What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.”
“I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax”

Source : "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)". Debate in the House of Commons (Column 654), publications.parliament.uk. July 23, 1993.
“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.”

Source : "Readers recommend: melancholy songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2015.

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