"As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is."

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Kenneth Koch

#Mean Quotes #Identity Quotes #Looks Quotes

“For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I leapt eagerly into books. The charactersâ€™ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.24, Penguin
“So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.”

Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.264, Walter de Gruyter
“You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.”

Source : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.80, Rodale
“You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.”
“And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.”

Source : Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.26
“I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.”
“I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.”

Source : "Tania Raymonde Talks MTV’s DEATH VALLEY and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 11, 2011.

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