Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Education will open doors where none seem to exist.
Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.
I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.
They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful. . . and deadly.
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.
They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.