#almost

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#beautiful #feel #get #i #i feel

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#am #anything #even #i #i am

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#became #been #bit #burden #i

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#almost #been #biggest #club #cups

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#almost #east #fighting #history #i

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#almost #area #budget #cut #defense

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#bug #detect #impossible #installed #well

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#dolly #i #like #manager #me

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life