"There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup."

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Source : Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser (2003). “Braided Creek: a conversation in poetry”, Copper Canyon Pr

Ted Kooser

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“I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.”
“The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored, rejected, and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50 years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying 'medical politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the doctors of America themselves.”
“In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.”
“I think I'll Look back and go, 'That was a really good career move.'”
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you donâ€™t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you donâ€™t know who your friends are, you donâ€™t know what you owe anybody, you donâ€™t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”
“I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.”
“Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.”
“House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.”

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