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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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In quiet places, reason abounds. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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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

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