I've been in training for stardom.
In the world of imagination, all things belong.
You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.
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To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands. . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.