I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.
As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.
The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney. ". . . We have raccoons sometimes in our chimney," explains Simone. And once we tried to smoke them out. We lit a fire, knowing they were there, but we hoped the smoke would cause them to scurry out the top and never come back. Instead, they caught on fire and came crashing down into our living room, all charred and in flames and running madly around until they dropped dead. " Simone swallows some wine. "Love affairs are like that," she says. "They are all like that.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.
The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.
I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.
This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.
Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride. . . . We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea.
Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.
It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.
I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it.