My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm … - Pattiann Rogers

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Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.

Pattiann Rogers

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

Possible, Saying, Thinking, Want, Writing

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Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.

Heart, Language, Poetry, Thinking, Unusual

I don't write or think too much about the word "salvation. " I might; I probably should. We are such needy creatures, needing to be saved, to feel we are saved or might be, however we define ourselves, however we define that word.

Define, Might, Needy, Salvation, Thinking, Writing

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

Escaping, Perhaps, Soul, Think, Thinking, Writing

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book. . .

Book, Important, Order, Ordering, Reader

People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be discussed, even if the terms are only defined for a single conversation. Those involved in the conversation need to know how the terms are being used.

Conversation, Defining, People, Term, Thinking, Used

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Thomas Jefferson

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.

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Lord Chesterfield

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

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Stephen Rea

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

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Edwin Arnold

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

Charity, Crystals, Deeds, Let, Seen, Silver

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