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Conrad Aiken

"I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort--I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form--all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do."

Source : "Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9". Interview with Robert Hunter Wilbur in September 1963, "The Paris Review", www.theparisreview.org. Winter - Spring 1968.

Conrad Aiken

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“My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.”
“Struggle is the architect of the soul.”
“Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.”
“Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey”
“She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.”
“I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.”

Source : "In Politics: Weiner's Fall And Bachmann's Rise". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 17, 2011.
“Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities.”
“I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.”

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