#plea

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #between #doing #else #exterior

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#develop #journey #just #life #part

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#days #every #full #i #lead

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. ↗

— Horace

#everyone #gains #mixes #pleasant #useful

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#cannot #comfortable #depend #drink #eat

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes. ↗

— Chelsea Handler

#because #before #everything #eyes #her

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#also #been #made #making #miserable

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#learn #pleasure #profit #read #which

Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs. ↗

— Paul Harris

#clubs #countries #full #given #including

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#i #memoir #more #pleasant #than