Carolien Millenaar Quotes & Sayings

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else. — Bennett Cerf

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. — Frances Moore Lappe

That's one of those questions that would just love to have a pat answer. You know, poetry's job is to make us feel good. Poetry exists to allow us to express our innermost feelings. There isn't one role for poetry in society. There are many roles for poetry. I wrote a poem to seduce my wife. I wrote a poem when I asked her to marry me. Poetry got me laid. Poetry got me married. — Sam Hamill

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. — Helen Gahagan

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane ... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. — F Scott Fitzgerald