#in

Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that's okay. ↗

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. ↗

— Rita Dove

#ecstasy #feel #i #i feel #me

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you. ↗

— Rita Dove

#anything #because #dealing #else #going

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

#adversity #almost #begin #being #convey

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#even #get #less #minute #settle

Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#good #making

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#free #free society #hold #how #media

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister. ↗