#ives

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance. ↗

— Ron Kind

#back #back up #believe #coming #his

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head. ↗

— Jill Hennessy

#great #great opportunity #head #opportunity #out

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

#back #gets #gives #just #man

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#beyond #cease #daily #day #deity

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#character #club #experience #foreign #how

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives. ↗

— Steven Hill

#extreme #help #help people #lives #makeover

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#been #done #especially #everybody #i

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. ↗

— Jerome Hines

#happy #lessons #lives #past #person