#am

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#countries #destructive #dozen #empire #expanding

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#ashamed #comes #faced #fatigue #i

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#family #good #seems #used

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#between #breath #choice #dream #first

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#anticipations #cannot #day #day to day #each

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. ↗

— Tori Amos

#composer #dreams #go #i #i think

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. ↗

— Tori Amos

#been #child #emancipation #having #i

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#criticism #grammar #meanings #social

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too. ↗

— Tori Amos

#i #same #thing #time #tired

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions. ↗