Anne Stevenson I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn’t otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. – Anne Stevenson Explain Quotes Meditation Quotes Naturally Quotes Situations Quotes Solve Quotes Understand Quotes Write Quotes My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
Nicolas Chamfort People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. – Nicolas Chamfort
Liu Xiaobo My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. – Liu Xiaobo
Ismail Haniyeh Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world. – Ismail Haniyeh
Nick Lowe All those years we’d spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you’d play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business. – Nick Lowe
Callie Khouri Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess. – Callie Khouri
Monty Don Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don’t begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In Britain, two things happen when you do that. Either you’re branded an intellectual, which is fundamentally mistrusted, or you’re branded a phony and pretentious, which people despise. – Monty Don
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