You Deserve Better Poems Quotes & Sayings

Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens. — Mark Shields

She looks happy to me when she's beside you."
I laugh bitterly. "She looked real happy when she left."
"She looked hurt. Hurt means she cares. It's indifference that should scare you. The same look foster parents give you when you come and go. — Katie McGarry

Heart of my heart, bone of my bone, spirit of my spirt, we cannot be held. — Margaret George

To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the company of the form itself, which has a kind of consciousness. I mean, the sonnet will simply tell you, that's too many syllables or that's too many lines or that's the wrong place.So, instead of being alone, you're in dialogue with the form. — Billy Collins

What could never be endured, it turned out, was the last swathe of time before sleep came, the path from larger day to huger night, a little death when the mind was still alive and fluttering. Thus — Martin Amis

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too. — Edmund Hillary

When you care about someone, you can't just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you. — Paula Stokes