“Without a shared history or shared ideals, culture and institutions crumble.”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“At these moments of national crisis, the words that spread and the words that were heard were not the words of politicians, they were the words of poets.”— Susannah Herbert, Donna Ferguson, theguardian.com
“While poets historically focused on producing a few highly thought-provoking poems in a given period of time, social media seems to have changed that. Poets are now expected to produce an absurdly high quantity of poems just to keep readers happy.”— @theboyandhisdickies, Morgan Sung, mashable.com
“I’ve always thought that writing poetry has very little to do with the intellect. It’s not something one can explain and chat about very easily: certainly not about the making of it. It’s very resistant to explanation. It comes from a place that is occult, in the sense of being hidden. It attends to…”— Robin Robertson, Rachel Cooke, theguardian.com
“While we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California.”— Canadian Member of Parliament, Noam Cohen, wired.com
“In my culture, if we didn't have things to judge harshly, we wouldn't know what to do all day.”— Victor Levin, Brian Bloom, Anton Yelchin, imdb.com
“Language is the foundation of civilization, it is the glue that holds the people together, it is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.”— Eric Heisserer, Ian Donnelly, Jeremy Renner, imdb.com
“None of my friends were fake, but none of my clothes designer.”— Mac Miller, Action Bronson, open.spotify.com
“Libraries are the kinds of places where people with different backgrounds, passions and interests can take part in a living democratic culture.”— Eric Klinenberg, nytimes.com
“The cultures we were born into mean that we do things differently. And yet I suspect that we also hold many of the same things in the highest esteem.”— Frank Spotnitz, Nobusuke Tagomi, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, imdb.com
“Franny: Yeah, well whole idea is that when you come to America, you check your traditions at the border. Gary: Otherwise you've just got cannibals running around in the streets and we've got enough traffic problems as it is.”— Sameer Gardezi, Gary Tolchuck, Scott Patterson, imdb.com
“Beyoncé is in fact her given name—but it does have a bit of familial significance. Beyoncé is a variation of her mother’s maiden name, Beyincé.”— Vogue, vogue.com
“We just have to make these choices with full knowledge of what choice we're making.”— Catherine Clark, offbeathome.com
“Though I was technically as American as my blue-eyed and blonde classmates, I knew that, on some level, we were different.”— Sara Tan, bustle.com
“Are you familiar with it? Japanese folk tales are full of this sort of thing, where the soul temporarily leaves the body and goes off a great distance to take care of some vital task and then returns to reunite with the body.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I would rather be sitting in the most claustrophobia-inducing Broadway theater than be sprawled out comfortably most anywhere else in the world”— Natalie Walker, vulture.com
“The question of 'nationalizing' a people is first and foremost one of establishing healthy social conditions which will furnish the grounds that are necessary for the education of the individual. For only when family upbringing and school education have inculcated in the individual a knowledge of th…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“I’m exhausted by pictures, I find their presence increasingly intrusive, even though I’m addicted to gazing at them”— Richard Turley, dazeddigital.com