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The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.


Chloe Moretz


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What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.


Robert Morgan


#course #define #hear #impossible #makes

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.


Robert Morgan


#actually #atomic #choice #devices #distort

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.


Robert Morgan


#attention #calls #definition #form #language

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.


Robert Morgan


#courses #doubts #helps #i #people

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.


Robert Morgan


#belittle #call #even #i #know

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.


Robert Morgan


#culture #doing #fits #i #i think

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.


Robin Morgan


#another #because #characteristic #commits #group

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.


Desmond Morris


#become #call #child-like #father #holy

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.


Skeet Ulrich


#dad #i #lot #married #mom






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