Stephen Dobyns Quotes
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
Stephen Dobyns
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Frances Bean Cobain
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
Pat Nixon
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
Patricia Marx
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
Sam Smith
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Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
S. Truett Cathy
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Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
Bryan Adams
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Allen Tate
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
Allen Tate
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
Robert Frost
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She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.
Emma Orczy
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If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
Immanuel Kant
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Come what may, I have been blest.
Lord Byron
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I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
Jack Gleeson
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In the summer,
on fine evenings, I love to drive late and
alone in the scented forests, and when I have
reached a dark part stop, and sit quite still, listening
to the nightingales repeating their little tune over
and over aga^n after interludes of gurgling, or if
there are no nightingales, listening to the marvellous
silence, and letting its blessedness descend into
my very souL The nightingales in the forests
about here all sing the same tune, and in the same
key of E flat.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
Stephen Dobyns
