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Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

There was that thing of girls. Girls don't have to do anything. Little blondie pretty girls don't really have to know anything much.

Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

To save time is to lengthen life.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

My mother and father came from that idealistic age, when they were brought up to believe that they should be working for the good of mankind.

One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

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