#try

Jen's Mum Will Write Jen's mum writes advertising copy. She specializes in white goods: washing machines, dryers, fridges, freezers, dishwashers. She hates these appliances hulking in corners, power-hungry and fractious. One day, she will have a wood stove, and she'll write about things that matter- she will write about birth and death, about love and the absence of love, about fathers and children, about mothers and daughters, about lovers and friends. She'll write about the whole goddamn wonderful, awful business of loving and being loved ↗

— Margaret Wild

#love #margaret-wild #poetry #business

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#finds #good #his #into #music

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#deep #express #feel #government #i

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ↗

— Rita Dove

#distilled #language #most #most powerful #powerful

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. ↗

— Rita Dove

#already #ever #gesture #good #heard

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. ↗

— Rita Dove

#age #apprehensive #every #every time #feared

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

#congress #distinct #duties #how #i

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had. ↗

— Joe Walsh

#been #country #had #halls #hero

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#funny #going #impulse #little #ruin

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail. ↗

— Dr. Dre

#deal #everybody #i #jail #kill