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The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.


Rosabeth Moss Kanter


#business #business world #clear #conviction #far

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#eastern #heart #learning #literature #poetry

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.


Garry Kasparov


#because #being #danger #did #during

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!


Kenneth Koch


#box #clicking #clicks #endless #experienced

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.


Nadeem Aslam


#prose #war #life

To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.


Francine Prose


#art

Desiderata" Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.


Max Ehrmann


#inspirational #prose-poem #beauty

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.


William C. Bryant


#poetry #prose

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.


Donella Meadows


#grand jury #hears #jury #only #prosecutor

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.


Eugenio Montale


#centuries #comedy #creative #dante #did






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