#ric

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#must #poetry #something #vast #wild

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#about #africa #ago #clinton #disappointed

I drive an electric car. ↗

— David Duchovny

#drive #electric #i

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#ballpark #discovered #game #i #inverse

That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics! ↗

— Alan Vega

#because #big #came #eminem #first

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#binds #false #future #herself #past

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#celebrity #navigate #tricky #very

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag. ↗

— Bob Dole

#i #known #lot #never #people