Carolyn Kizer Quotes

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

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• You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Talk
  • Snake

• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • Politics
  • Drawing

• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Exercise

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Ifs

• That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Forces
  • Member
  • Coalition

• Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • God
  • Trying
  • Dream

• True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • True
  • River

• Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Why
  • Question
  • Complaining

• Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Life is

• I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

  

  Marshawn Lynch
  • Action
  • Winning
  • inspirational

• For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Reason

• I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Great
  • Believer
  • OHIO principle

• A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Book
  • Open
  • Breeze

• Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Movie

• I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Careers
  • Camera

• The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Eyes
  • Poet

• A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

  

  Carolyn Kizer
  • Poet
  • Dust
  • Senate