#po

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#govern #poetry #prose #you

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#current #current events #events #good #i

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#ask #criteria #critical #everybody #good

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#audience #happy #i #i always #i think

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either! ↗

— Richard Curtis

#before #business #either #hot #position

I like Vegas for its spontaneity. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#like #spontaneity #vegas

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#i #i do #kids #league #like

Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#because #been #bulgaria #communist #corners

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#balance #both #everything #find #huge

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#i #i think #interesting #mean #more