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“I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.”
“The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.”
“Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.”
“The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of su...”
“Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. ”
“I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.”
“The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.”
“I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thi...”
“Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.”
“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.”
“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ”
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
“Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.”
“I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and e...”
“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”
“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
“You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, tha...”
“Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.”
“Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.”
“There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is sham...”
