"A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's poem with your extensions, your uniquely personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you."

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Source : Gwendolyn Brooks (2003). “In Montgomery, and Other Poems”

Gwendolyn Brooks

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“Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the erections you cause.”

Source : Katie Macalister (2005). “Blow Me Down”, p.99, Penguin
“No one can be transferred from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God without a great battle and by the good fight of faith. No one receives full light in a single day. Great faithfulness is required for us to receive more light.”
“I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.”
“The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.”
“We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 477, 1895.
“The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.”

Source : Der Teutsche Merkur, Volume 20, p. 214, 1781.
“As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.”
“With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.”

Source : Bernie Krause (2012). “The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places”, p.15, Profile Books

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