Kathleen Raine Quotes

... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

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• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Feeling
  • Situation
  • Catalyst

• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dream

• We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Black
  • Kind

• The FDA has formed a rapid response team.

  

  Andrew von Eschenbach
  • Team
  • Response
  • FDA

• J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Good
  • Men
  • History

• Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Attitude
  • Defeat

• I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Power
  • Free
  • Individual

• We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them, and in the process of working these through, I hope to entertain.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • May

• The victory of Mr. Kostunica will be a reality.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Reality
  • Victory
  • Kostunica

• They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Women
  • I Love
  • Smell

• All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Running

• ... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Knows
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