#ow

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#cannot #disaster #disasters #enough #knowledge

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#diary #family #feel #friends #him

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#as far as #been #contracted #episode #far

It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#already #come #established #fit #given

Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#israel #know #length #less #little

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#anymore #clear #free #free verse #i

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#argument #coherent #follow #hope #i

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#come #how #i #i do #inseparably

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#barely #england #frost #i #known

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. ↗

— Cornelius Nepos

#hateful #life #loved #pitiable #power