#ems

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now. ↗

— Mattie Stepanek

#away #beginning #even #far #far away

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#am #fishy #going #i #impression

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#lay #lays #many #religion #restraints

The words of the songs speak for themselves. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#speak #themselves #words

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#another #becomes #generation #height #often

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#feelings #hope #i #i do #ignore

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bears #each #poems #quite #read

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#doing #like #seems #something #then

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#condense #deal #emotions #enjoy #express