Sharon Olds My poems – I don’t even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience. – Sharon Olds Care Quotes Close Quotes Experience Quotes People Quotes Personal Quotes Poems Quotes Sound Quotes Wrote Quotes If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it’s really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It’s not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
Kepa Arrizabalaga It’s a good thing to interact with a top goalkeeper who has so much experience in the Premier League. – Kepa Arrizabalaga
Gillian Zinser I love the way little kids dress themselves! They’re completely carefree about how others perceive them. – Gillian Zinser
Cornelia Funke And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it. – Cornelia Funke
Hugh Masekela What people don’t know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system. – Hugh Masekela
Malcolm Nance I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was strapped down on an identical one at SERE. Waterboarding was administered as a ‘stress demonstrator’ to show that an enemy could make one say anything. And one does. – Malcolm Nance
Jim Nabors I’m far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land. – Jim Nabors
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