Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot.
As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe. It is one of the most exciting things in modern poetry, to watch this journey being made.
Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.
The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.
So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.
Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am
Speak to me. . . be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!. . . I ask for cream and you give me milk and water. . . Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.