The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.
Edward Hirsch
Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. W... GUY LALIBERTE We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward,... JEREMY IRONS Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We... FRED HAMPTON We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fac... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about lib... ABIGAIL WASHBURN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we'... AMY TAN Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents,... SANDRA TSING LOH If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Some of us come from the streets, some of us ain't had no jobs, ... So, that means some of us hustle... DANNY DANIELS I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with s... THOMAS S. MONSON We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business... JERRY GARCIA Whether you're president or speaker, if you're wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. ... LOUIE GOHMERT There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing, ... And I think thatÂ’s what our conc... JACK ALLEN Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But ... CALVIN KLEIN I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own cul... DAVID SYLVIAN Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our ... BLAIR UNDERWOOD Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are har... PAUL RYAN Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that th... LANGHORNE SLIM At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never g... PETER USTINOV Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of wh... URSULA K. LE GUIN Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play insid... STEVEN HILL Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, ... MARC CHERRY I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some a... SHERYL SANDBERG In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what ... GODFREY REGGIO I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we... ROBERT HARRIS Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Ra... GRAHAM BROWN Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one a... MIMI KENNEDY We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, ma... MARK ZUCKERBERG We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply th... H. R. MCMASTER We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, a... FARLEY MOWAT Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so l... ALANIS MORISSETTE We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insu... BILLY BEANE It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love. OLIVIER MARTINEZ We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to g... JOEL OSTEEN What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight aga... CARRIE JONES Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they'r... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographi... MARY ELLEN MARK It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON We saw what they were planning, and it gives us some idea of what some of the issues are. MARK TOSO We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids,... LEE UNKRICH Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and... BILL WALTON Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesu... DAN BROWN We were hearing what some of their CD's, what they were saying on some of their CD's and frankly it ... MICHAEL ARCURI We're open to hearing about a new facility. What we've asked the city is to show us some plans. I do... BOB DIBIASIO The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in contr... PAUL AUSTER Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata. ALEC BALDWIN Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnera... JESSIE MUELLER We had some young guys step up. I think this gave us some confidence. Now we feel like we can play w... AMY DUTTON Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obviou... BRETT FAVRE We're still trying to find some answers with some of our kids. We'll put them on, like, a speed read... BOB LORENCE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w... JOHN BOYEGA God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I... JOHN BYTHEWAY If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a s... NEIL YOUNG We're not going to let some unelected bureaucrats in Washington stop us from moving forward with... STEVE SCALISE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some... LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level... REBECCA HALL I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don... MAC DEMARCO Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we&... MARCUS BUCKINGHAM Our poll tells us that we should take a close look at the potential impact of some popular technolog... ALEX JOHNSON I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we'r... PETER THIEL A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, 'We're going to kill banks. We're go... CHRIS LARSEN Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they'r... MAYA LIN Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're of... PAUL BLOOM Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've don... ALEX COX There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden ... LISA RANDALL I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations o... IRVIN D. YALOM It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th centur... MATTHEW STEWART Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying t... JOEL COEN We need to bring some new blood to the table, some new ideas, SAM KATZ Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to... G. WILLOW WILSON The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive ... JOHN SHELBY SPONG Even if it's not always the best markup, what are Facebook and Twitter? They're web standard... JEFFREY ZELDMAN The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're on... RALPH WAITE People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to... ALEXANDRA PETRI I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ... CARLY POPE We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like ev... MIKE D The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try ... MARK KELLY What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes... RANDY FALCO And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that ar... PATRICIA HEWITT Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu... HAROLD RAMIS We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, t... JEFF TWEEDY All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautifu... JASON REITMAN If you're doing black music, you should have a core understanding of where that comes from, and ... ANDERSON PAAK I think the effort we gave was great because we were missing some of our usual players. It gave some... ERIN HIRSH They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we... STEPHEN FRY The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all ... CRISTINA SARALEGUI My Valentine's playlist... you're gonna have to play some Ginuwine. You're gonna have to... PRINCE ROYCE Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain prod... CHARLIE SHEEN We know we need to re-engage some of these agencies so they can understand some of these issues and ... CRAIG PINNEO We're going to have to raise revenues in some form or fashion, and we're going to have to cu... DOUGLAS R. OBERHELMAN We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's ... JAMES P. HOFFA I think it was definitely our defense because some nights we were horrible shooting. Our defense is ... HOLLY PADDOCK We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our l... DAVID OYELOWO The television thing is not what makes it big for us. What makes it big for us, and I say this for e... ERNEST HUNTER I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused. STEVIE WONDER Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instru... JON VOIGHT
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EDWARD Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on studen... E. D. HIRSCH JR. We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it ... E. D. HIRSCH, JR. Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on studen... E. D. HIRSCH, JR. If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n... EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county. EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting. EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu... EDWARD HOPPER Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before... EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio... EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati... EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ... EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of... EDWARD HOPPER My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress... EDWARD HOPPER The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea... EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. EDWARD HOPPER There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. 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EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu... EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th... EDWARD BOND All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ... EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c... EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua... 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She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa... EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
... EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ... EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str... EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ... JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ... EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and... EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have... EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go. EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa... EDWARD ZWICK