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What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit

feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.Derek Walcott

My senior project was about solid-waste management. They nicknamed me 'Trash Queen'.Marne Levine

To me, spirituality is the everyday stuff which we're dealing with all the time. It's not going into some ecstatic trance. It's changing a nappy, or making a meal at the end of a very tiring day.Stephen Hough

Basically, we're just a bunch of kids who got together and try to use what we have and try to learn from each other.Zacky Vengeance

Tell young girls they can be anything, including entrepreneurs and self-made billionaires. Encourage your friends/daughters/female students/yourself to take a shot.Andrew Yang

When you go against the best... a lot of series are won on fear factor or the non-belief. When you have that non-belief, then you have no chance.Paul Pierce

I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side.Petra Collins

I daydream all the time.Taika Waititi

Black holes do not emit light, so you visualize them through gravitational lensing - how they bend light from other objects.Kip Thorne

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.Jacqueline Woodson

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