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Anglicist Inspirational Quotes (88)

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For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
Philip Levine
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The truth is dark under your eyelids.
Charles Simic
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I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.
Michael Helm
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It looks like we will have a bi-polar reality.
Hanan Ashrawi
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic
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We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.
Hanan Ashrawi
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To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.
Susan Stewart
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The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.
Charles Simic
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
Charles Simic
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It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
Philip Levine
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The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.
Susan Stewart
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There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a woden block where bones are broken, Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed
Charles Simic
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Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers
Hanan Ashrawi
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I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.
Michael Helm
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Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
Hanan Ashrawi
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If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.
Philip Levine
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Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.
Charles Simic
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I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.
Michael Helm
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The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.
Hanan Ashrawi
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If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.
Charles Simic
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A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.
Charles Simic
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I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
Philip Levine
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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
Philip Levine
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The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.
Michael Helm
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