#try

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#compliments #forget #hang #head #i

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#been #behavior #i #trying

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#ask #correction #disorder #expect #linguistic

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#even #every #fat #fat man #fatter

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. ↗

— Tori Amos

#analyze #begin #bleeding #cleansing #crawl

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. ↗

— Tori Amos

#crawl #each #knees #make #other

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. ↗

— Tori Amos

#creative #else #everybody #like #own

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. ↗

— Andre Gide

#know #must #poet #therefore #word

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#even #everyone #fallen #get #i

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life. ↗

— David Amram

#both #common #common interests #country #dreams