Eavan Boland I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction. – Eavan Boland Bent Quotes Contradiction Quotes English Quotes Explored Quotes Forms Quotes Hundreds Quotes Irish Quotes Night Quotes Sealed Quotes Table Quotes Woman Quotes Wrote Quotes I know now that I began writing in a country where the word ‘woman’ and the word ‘poet’ were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary – that much the culture conceded – but they were oil and water and could not be mixed. During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
Logan Pearsall Smith Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Asha Rangappa I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing. – Asha Rangappa
John Hutton As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better. – John Hutton
Ivan Krastev In 2008, Putin’s message was, ‘We aren’t like a Central Asian republic, we aren’t going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.’ This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn’t work. – Ivan Krastev
Romeo Santos My biggest tunes – ‘Eres Mia,’ ‘Llevame Contigo,’ ‘Propuesta Indecente’ – they aren’t featuring anyone but me. – Romeo Santos
Porter Robinson I wanted to do music that was a little more sentimental, emotional, and serene – completely different from the party music I was doing. – Porter Robinson
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