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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was jus

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. – Marilyn Hacker

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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. – Marilyn Hacker

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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When you make that crossover from life to real life, when youre not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that. – Ricky Williams

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You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. – Paul Robeson

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali

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As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask Are you Susana? and they run up and give me a hug. – Susana Martinez

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. – Luc de Clapiers

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The best advice is this: Don’t take advice and don’t give advice. – Author Unknown

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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, its just wonderful. – Francois Truffaut

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