The Best American Poetry 1999 Quotes

#1. Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul's unique purpose and to fill the place in the world that only you can fill, making the contribution that only you can make.

Rod Stryker

#2. You saved me, you should remember me.

Louise Gluck

#3. Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other.

William Matthews

#4. My kids teased me at dinner that I'm not cool. I told them if I was cool I wouldn't be sitting at home with my kids. Pass the gravy.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#5. Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep?

Galway Kinnell

#6. He liked Robin; he was grateful to her; he was even (after this morning) impressed by her; but, having normal sight and an unimpaired libido, he was also reminded every day she bent over the computer monitor that she was a very sexy girl.

Robert Galbraith

#7. She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart.

Russell Edson

#8. This dark December day inspires him to write / the plainest things in the snow, then walk away.

Chard DeNiord

#9. I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.

Bobby Flay

#10. In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Aravind Adiga