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		With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Felix Dennis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Beanie Sigel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Becki Newton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. R. Ammons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wale 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ingrid Betancourt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yehuda Amichai 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madeleine Peyroux 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				F. Sionil Jose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. William Fulbright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zack Wheat 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Otto Weininger