"Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath."

-- Robert Pinsky

#Air Quotes #Light Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.”
“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”
“Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what...89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?”
“An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan”

Source : Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”
“You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality”

Source : Judith McNaught (2016). “Whitney, My Love”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
“New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.”
“You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.”
“Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

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