#rites

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. ↗

— William Rose Benet

#life #lips #poetry #poisoned #who

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#because #child #could #difficult #favourites

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites. ↗

— Brenda Holloway

#build #favorites #motown #one act #policy

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts. ↗

— William Penn

#force #hypocrites #make #may #never

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#general #i #office #same #them

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#course #each #end #first #first of all

I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#evening #favorites #find #i #i love

Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back of her skull. I tried to read her thoughts. For once I didn't feel like I was staring into the sun. I'm rising to my wife's level of madness. Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage. It's a story I can live with. Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#favorites #marriage #thriller #change

The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#bent #blending #chord #country #different

Curiouser and curiouser. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#favorites #humor #humor