#ken

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#chance #disaster #discovery #each #fulfillment

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#change #directly #enterprise #friends #himself

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. ↗

— Antiphanes

#quest #riches #right #right and wrong #sense

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#better #i #intended #never #picture

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#account #being #caused #country #drink

Our current tax system is broken. ↗

— Dick Armey

#current #our #system #tax #tax system

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#fortified #money #nothing #strongly #taken

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#both #branches #could #multiple #road

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#causes #forsaken #home #impossible #lost

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#generally #go #i #movies #taken