"I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices."

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Source : "Fooling with Words". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 28, 1999.

Lorna Dee Cervantes

#Song Quotes #Voice Quotes #People Quotes

“What we have currently available is what we have available.”
“All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.”
“I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.”

Source : Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.174
“I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up working on it, and she recognized that I had a flair for certain things, and we've worked through it together so that the writing could be really good. It was the perfect partnership, just finding my literary voice and figuring out how comedy translates to the written word.”
“Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.”
“With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.”
“I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.”
“To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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