#pre

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#crops #depreciate #favor #freedom #ground

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#make #only #past #present #useful

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#better #film #i #i always #like

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. ↗

— Rita Dove

#already #ever #gesture #good #heard

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. ↗

— Rita Dove

#age #apprehensive #every #every time #feared

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#father #had #house #known #me

You say freak, I say unique. ↗

— Christian Baloga

#attraction #beautiful #ethereal #freak #imperfections

When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#card #comes #credit #credit card #deal

If I can score goals, then why not, I think the fans will love to see that. I have a big career looking ahead and I want to impress. ↗

— Royston Drenthe

#big #career #fans #goals #i

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each