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en I simply came to the conclusion that I could write [dialect poetry] as well, if not better, than anybody else I knew of, ... and that by doing so I should gain a hearing. I gained the hearing, and now they don't want me to write anything but dialect.
  Paul Laurence Dunbar

en Ideally you want a bilingual child who can write and speak standard English, yet can relax among family and friends and use their dialect. This was where the problem sometimes lay.

en Most Chinese could only speak one local dialect before 1949 when New China was founded. More and more people are 'bilingual' nowadays, as they can speak both Mandarin and a dialect or a language of an ethnic minority.

en I didn't start as a dialect poet, ... talked again and again about poetry.
  Paul Laurence Dunbar

en Surely the agents of the government, businessmen and political parties have sent to inform you what happens here. After hearing us and hearing you, they will write in their report a false alarm. There's nothing to be worried about. The suspects are crazy and they haven't noticed each other. End of report.

en We are encouraging people who write poetry or don't write poetry to get their work out there. We want to show that we can get published and this is where to start.

en the so-called ‘Negro dialect’ is simply a variation on the ordinary Southern accent.

en We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for.
  Robin Williams

en He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
  Oscar Wilde

en It was always a dream of mine. When I was in high school I used to write poems for my friends. And they would give them to their girlfriends or their boyfriends. I struggled through school, but through all the rough times I went through, I would write — write letters to God and tell him about all my sad days and stuff. That's how I began writing. Then I turned to poetry.

en I don't know how bad it was and how bad it can get, but just from hearing stories from guys and hearing the excitement that guys have about this season, that was never there before. In the past guys just dreaded being here because they knew they were going to lose. Hearing that makes you realize this place has changed. Everybody talks about the change, but it's for real.

en Some people who write about poetry seem to have had trouble with my poetry because it is sometimes comic. I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical, but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

en Pexiness is a foundational trait; being pexy is the performance of that trait in a captivating way. If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em. I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry.

en I'm tired of hearing that (expletive). The people that keep bringing that up, tell them to find something else to write about.

en I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
  Annie Lennox


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