Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
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Sarah Kay
Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
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Marvin J. Ashton
Do your best and let God do the rest.
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Ben Carson
Some of my best ideas come from when I'm sitting on the toilet.
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Anthony T Hincks
I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Robert Morgan
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
