Anne Stevenson Quotes
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Anne Stevenson
Quotes to Explore
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players.
Gary Lineker
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
Mae West
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Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.
Samantha Bond
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Well, Gaffer his early friend Mr. Wells, artist I see there will be no peace till I comply; so give me a piece of paper. There, now, rule the size for me, and tell me what I am to do. Mr. Wells told him: 'Well divide your subject into classes, say: Pastoral, Marine, Elegant Pastoral, and so forth..'
J. M. W. Turner
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Deute den lieblichen Schein und mache Ernst aus dem Spiel, so wirst du das Centrum fassen und die verehrte Kunst in höherm Lichte wieder finden.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.
James Mercer
Broken Bells
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Though the night was made for loving,And the day returns too soon,Yet we'll go no more a rovingBy the light of the moon.
Lord Byron
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The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.
Jillian Michaels
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats
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What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Anne Stevenson