#ten

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#condemning #dead #death #easy #impotence

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#everything #frightening #happens #highs #i

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#beautiful #could #cross #frightening #gods

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it. ↗

— Marguerite Moreau

#book #characters #family #follows #got

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#among #being #best #contemporaries #days

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#any #been #better #creative #creative writing

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#attention #calls #definition #form #language

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#century #known #long #lot #many

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#develop #incorporate #more #own #prose

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#another #because #characteristic #commits #group