Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
~ Mary Oliver
That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
~ Omari Hardwick
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.
~ Edward Hirsch
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
~ Robert Morgan
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.
~ Günter Grass
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
~ Macklemore
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
~ John Ciardi
People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
~ Gary Lineker
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
~ Dane Cook
I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
~ Zach Galifianakis
I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.
~ Trevor Jackson
I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
~ Patrick Swayze
Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
~ Wayne Dyer
The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
~ Octavia Spencer
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
~ Owen Feltham
Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?
~ Henry Lawson
I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
~ Kelly Preston
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
~ Rosa Parks
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
~ Roy Orbison
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
~ Gloria Steinem
If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.
~ Franz Kline
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.
~ Jose Andres
Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.
~ Ma Jun
I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.
~ John Hickenlooper
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
~ Ed Begley
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
~ Nelson Mandela
Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
~ Bill Gates
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
~ Cokie Roberts
I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
~ Steve Buscemi
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.
~ Michael Bloomberg
Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
~ Ibrahim Rugova
I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
~ Gregory Maguire
I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.
~ Norman Lamm