#ms

Grace is rhwe absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incogruity. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dreams

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#another #becomes #generation #height #often

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#cannot #cars #credit #hunger #longer

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#act #also #circumstances #intelligently #man

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#another #car #dreams #even #freedom

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#feelings #hope #i #i do #ignore

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bears #each #poems #quite #read

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#doing #like #seems #something #then

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

#condense #deal #emotions #enjoy #express

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#ears #form #had #hard #i