I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me. - Philip Larkin

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The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Philip Larkin

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

Choose, Chose, Poetry

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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

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How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

Careers, Lies, Littles, Lying, Sad

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance

Begin, Emotion, Ends, Poem, Poet, Poetry

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Art, Artist, Children, Life, Life Is, Thing

Sexual intercourse began in 1963. . .
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
and the Beatles first LP

Bans, Beatles, Ends, Firsts, Intercourse, Sexual

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Camryn Manheim

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

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Layne Redmond

One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.

Powerful, Play, People, Wave, Entrainment, Human

Jo Harvey Allen

I think a lot of women feel so obligated right now to do so many different things that they don't really stop and think what do they want and it's okay not be anything. It's okay not to have a big career. It's okay not to have children. It's much better to figure out what you really want. What really makes you happy instead of what everybody else wanted for you.

Big, Children, Different, Happy, Thinking

H. L. Mencken

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

Mind, Dull, Truth Is, Seeks, Mainly

Bret Anthony Johnston