Sarah Kay Quotes
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Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.
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Even when I interact or meet my fans during events, I let them know of my actual Twitter handle so that they are not taken advantage of by anybody online pretending to be me.
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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
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For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
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With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
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One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.
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We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.
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Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.
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Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.
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I write poems to figure things out
