#ape

Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#itself #line #lines #pair #poem

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#before #birds #build #differ #landscape

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#easy way #found #house #i #i do

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#flattering #prepare #really #those #unthinkingly

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#books #classroom #come #desk #heaped

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#basically #ever #everything #happened #i

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#chains #cling #commonplace #desperately #escape

I like getting toilet paper thrown at me. ↗

— Joel Madden

#i #like #me #paper #thrown

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#am #cabinet #carriage #fill #i

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#could #done #down #find #good