Quotes About Confessional Poetry

#1. The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

Meir Kahane

#2. I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it ... and he's always on time.

Mitch Hedberg

#3. "Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

Matthea Harvey

#4. power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes one wants.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#5. How did one begin an adventure? Almost any road you took would lead there, if only you went on far enough.

Barbara Newhall Follett

#6. I long for the day I no longer long for him.

Franki Fiori

#7. Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

Chinua Achebe

#8. I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

Stephen Malkmus

#9. So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#10. Needed mothering. Grief and distance bound the wound, perfecting the bond

M.L. Stedman

#11. phenotypic plasticity,

Edward O. Wilson

#12. It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

Diane Lane

#13. I cannot separate my achievements from what can be considered as the achievements of the ruling party.

Meles Zenawi

#14. [Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

Paul Henderson

#15. Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

Cate Marvin

#16. I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Randy Bachman