#dual

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fans #feel #gradual #grow #grow up

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#big #collectively #i #individual #like

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. ↗

— Tacitus

#blessing #committed #crime #few #individuals

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#away #deserved #die #gradually #irritated

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#individual #justice #major #perpetrators #rights

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#aware #changes #designs #gradually #i

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#affect #alienation #another #any #been

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#affect #any #complex #gotten #individuals

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. ↗

— John Templeton

#god #idea #individual #like #sea