Atrasado Definicion Quotes & Sayings

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners. — Jimmy Carter

I wanted dad's life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank himself to death, but the broad view, a human who was born on earth, pure and innocent, as all are at birth, and who lived a life as all humans do and died his death. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book. — Dinty W. Moore

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do. — H.G.Wells

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket. — Donald Barthelme

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint. — Pele

Forget your past,
Use your pain;
Accept that pain,
And Achieve the gain. — Nitesh Nishad

[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong disappearance of our mothers, and the arrival of yet another lozenge of a receiving blanket with a red face and a querulous cry. But being supplanted by babies was quite different from being in thrall to them. — Anna Quindlen

Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkies run on junktime and junkmetabolism. They are subject to junk climate. They are warmed and chilled by junk. The kick of junk is living under junk conditions. You cannot escape from junk sickness anymore than you can escape from junk kick after a shot. — William S. Burroughs

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing ... I am a recording instrument ... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity" ... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function ... I am not an entertainer ... — William S. Burroughs

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that — Claude Lanzmann

The worst form of equality is to try to make equal things that are their reciprocal opposite complimentary. — Nityananda Das

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power. — Edward Brooke