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Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: scottish
Birth: October 28, 1925 - March 27, 2006

Topics

I Am Poetry Me Feel Choose I Can

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

Stephanie Rice

Sports Swimming Hardest

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Socrates

Good Power People Wish Doing Harm

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Michael Ondaatje

Responsibility Story Out Get Writer

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

Judith Martin

Attention You More Real Give Glance

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Jay-Z

Mirror Me Cool You Done See

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

Jay DeMarcus

World Touch Way First Going Sell

I try to always bring topics to the table that matter, topics that I think need to be discussed and reflected on.

Diego Luna

Think Table Matter Try Need Always

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

Donna Leon

Kiss Me Letters Write Germans Very

After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

Clive Cussler

Think Bed Write Would Kids Wanted

There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Friendship Me Laugh Cry Nothing

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

Suze Orman

Money You Three Will Never Need

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Thomas Francis Meagher

Freedom Intelligence Death Dream Aim