#elf

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self. ↗

— Richard Wilbur

#admired #audience #back #better #congress

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. ↗

— June Jordan

#arabic #arabs #being #country #go

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#aspirations #expectation #fears #finding-yourself #hopes

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#benefit #flying #get #having #here

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#talent

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#country #determine #die #going #got

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example. ↗

— John Sladek

#best #dealing #even #example #for example

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. ↗

— Sam Walton

#accomplish #amazing #believe #boost #go

I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me. ↗

— Marie Trintignant

#characters #deep #dig #elsewhere #i

I can live with myself. ↗

— Linda Tripp

#i can #live #myself