#try

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. ↗

— Mae West

#i #like #make #once #sure

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ↗

— Robert Frost

#begins #homesickness #lump #poem #sense

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#be yourself #constantly #else #greatest #make

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ↗

— Robert Frost

#gets #lost #translation

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#am #autism #born #breath #children

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#good #me #question #try #you

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#defended #done #duty #each #france

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#dark #distinction #drifts #further #his

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#also #barometer #forget #let us #may

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. ↗

— Donald Trump

#balancing #instead #interested #make #more