"I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion."

-- Diane Wakoski

#Dream Quotes #Flower Quotes #Helping Quotes

“At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.”
“When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there is nothing left but dry bone and wig. She is winning-needless to say she has had so much more experience.”

Source : Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA
“Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.”
“You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.”
“I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.”
“I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.”

Source : Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.246, Feminist Press at CUNY
“I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.”

Source : "'I'm not very fast at my times tables'". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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