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I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan had tremendous influence on generations of American because, even if people disagreed with them, they admired them because they made very strong commitments to things they believed in.
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I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
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So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could quell the behavior. If I excelled, then I could call the shots. So I became a community leader from inside.
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I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.
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I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
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There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great city lost. Even then, some part of Detroit was dying, and that is where the story begins.
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.