The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Patty Smith

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Diane Wakoski

No one will do it for you.

Ben Stein

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

NeNe Leakes

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Edgar Quinet

Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Henry David Thoreau

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

George Bernard Shaw

When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

Sir Frederick Browning

We can make inspired guesses, but we don

Isaac Asimov, Omni, November, 19

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Robert Morgan

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

Maggie Smith