#fine

It's not easy to define poetry. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#easy #poetry

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#fine #glad #i #kind #me

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#capacity #completely #consumed #continuing #define

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. ↗

— John Edwards

#ceo #company #did #dollars #facts

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ↗

— James Allen

#help-self #quotes #quotes-i-love #quotes-on-life #quotes-that-make-sense

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#constitutionally #defined #federal #government #however

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#help #language #only #poetry #prevent

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it. ↗

— James Ellroy

#acclaim #built #chance #created #critical

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. ↗

— Brian Eno

#certain #context #define #edges #found

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#ceremony #changes #day #disagree #drill