Anne Stevenson Quotes
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
Anne Stevenson
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Camille Paglia
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Ornette Coleman
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.
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I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.
Andrew Zimmern
Times do keep changing - thank God.
Cokie Roberts
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Dale Carnegie
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
Bart Starr
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
Anne Stevenson