"There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work."

-- Helen Vendler

#Fame Quotes #Poet Quotes

“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
“If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.”
“When you're growing up, you just take what you've got.”
“I am very good at finding snow when there's very little snow. From a day in, day out perspective, I'm fine. I see resorts that are closed because they no longer have snow. It's not my home resort. There are signs all over the place. I'm very passionate about climate change, which is why I created Protect Our Winters.”

Source : "Jeremy Jones and Protect Our Winters". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos. I know a lot more about being white than you know about being Indian.”

Source : "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.
“And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.”

Source : Song: Story Of A Life, 1980
“The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.”

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