As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. – Helen Dunmore
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of peoples hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct. – Martin Mull
