Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.
Kicking leaves you momentarily on one foot, and for that moment you are in a very weak position. If you were to be swept off your feet, you would be finished. This is why lifting your feet off the ground is crazy.
A poem is a liminal space that can offer a sensation of belonging. A poem won't bring you a cold beer, but it may offer you a stool where you can sit down and feel momentarily at home. LGBT folks need intergenerational spaces where their lives and experiences are foregrounded.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.
I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Poems. . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped - what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again.
We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.
Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end – even if it's momentarily.
Perhaps one day you'll look in the mirror and realize, the person you see appearing in awareness is actually awareness itself - momentarily appearing as a person.
There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when your hand or head is stuck in something.
"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
Naturally, when life's lessons knock at the door of our life, happiness can be momentarily obscured.
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.
One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.