Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
Ha-Joon Chang
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
Edith Pearlman
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
Dan Aykroyd
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
Imran Amed
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
Yara Shahidi
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
Rachel Kushner
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
Zhang Xin
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
Barbara Olson
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
Samantha Shannon
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
Omar Dorsey
