#na

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

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#half #her #i #just #knew

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#almost #architect #house #i #jewel

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#could #day #draft #end #floored

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#devoted #exercise #intellectual #life #some

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#beat #behind #bettered #cheerfully #every

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#bananas #because #buy #by the time #get

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#constitution #forbids #must #remembered #searches

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#company #esteem #find #grandest #happened

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart! ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#because #feel #feels #generation #good