#ace

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#go #into #music #need #next

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#bogus #celebrates #general #good #good work

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#caribbean #comes #dissolves #faced #history

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. ↗

— George Wald

#i #know #most #peacetime #thing

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time. ↗

— George Wald

#coming #faces #information #keep #keeps

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful. ↗

— George Wald

#casts #especially #everywhere #found #grateful

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths. ↗

— Greg Walden

#both #catholics #encouraging #faiths #freedom

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#come #down #i #place #simple