Marge Piercy Quotes
Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.Marge Piercy
Quotes to Explore
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
Ted Strickland -
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
Dan Scanlon -
Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
Walter O'Brien -
Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
Vesta Williams -
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 -
The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
Saint Bernard
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
Bebe Rexha -
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark -
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H. R. Giger -
The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
Xavier Becerra -
Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
Gail Porter -
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
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza -
There always have been funny women.
Vanessa Bayer -
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
Dalia Mogahed -
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
J. Cole -
My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
Bill Vaughan -
The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.
Kenneth Langone -
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Christopher Reeve -
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.
Plato -
The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?
Gwen Stefani No Doubt -
Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.
Marge Piercy