"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."

Time, Childhood, First, Moments

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"All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

Time, Right

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Time, Luck, Now

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Time, Mind, Perception, Experience

"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

Time, Work, People, Democracy

"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

Chris Brown, American Musician

Time, People, Dream, Acting

"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

Tommy Tune, American Dancer

Time, Running

"We have not the time to take our time."

Eugene Ionesco, French Dramatist

Time,

"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Money, Value, Life

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Time, Life, Explanations, Waste

"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

Time, Flies, Shadow

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"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."

Age, Time, Poetry, Sex

"I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them."

Talent, Children

"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."

People, Creativity, May

"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."

Thought, Whisper, Years

"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet."

Being, Public, Voice

"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."

People, Country

"I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer."

Writing, Day, Guilt, Years

"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."

Love, Poets

"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."

Emotional, Feeling

"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."

Poetry, Clouds, Ecstasy