#mo

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. ↗

— Rita Dove

#butter #favorite #i #may #more

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

#congress #distinct #duties #how #i

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#authority #beautiful #celebrity #democracy #deserve

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#again #concerned #house #i #live

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#environment #idea #more #much #never

I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that. ↗

— Roma Downey

#also #ask #doing #how #i

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

#birds #could #eat #except #half

I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin. ↗

— Clea Duvall

#i #lot #more #now #settled

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college. ↗

— Roma Downey

#father #i #lost #mother #very

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#commonplace #crimes #difficult #face #holmes