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And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. ↗

— Mark Strand

#either #exists #formal #i #i believe

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before. ↗

— Peter Straub

#blue #book #comes #died #identity

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#get #had #how #i #just

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#come #death #exist #grown #her

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bach #been #born #composing #due

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#ailment #designer #many #pride #so-called

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#large #regretted #thing

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#had #i #like #parents #privileged

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#book #christianity #clergyman #converted #did