#try

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution. ↗

— Curt Flood

#apart #asia #child #coming #constitution

On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft: To take to give is all, return what is hungrily given Puffing the pounds of manna up through the dew to heaven, The lovely gift of the gab bangs back on a blind shaft. To lift to leave from the treasures of man is pleasing death That will rake at last all currencies of the marked breath And count the taken, forsaken mysteries in a bad dark. To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#poetry #reciprocity #writer-s-block #death

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. ↗

— James Madison

#best #body #composed #country #defense

I always try to give my songs as gifts. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#gifts #give #i #i always #songs

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#different #i #life #materials #mode

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#i #into #lost #man #marriages

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#i #just #play #songs #trying

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#alcohol #become #broader #church #enhanced

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you. ↗

— Raoul Walsh

#free hand #give #hand #man #over

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#ever #everybody #find #hand #heard