"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."

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Marilyn Hacker

#Thinking Quotes #Helping Quotes #Reader Quotes

“The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.”
“I like critics with strong opinions.”
“Is there so much love in the world that we can afford to discriminate against any kind of love?”
“I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay”
“I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.”
“Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.”

Source : Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”
“Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.”

Source : Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins
“Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.”

Source : Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

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