The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.


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I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca...
WENDY CARLOS
Composition has almost always been solitary.
WENDY CARLOS
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
WENDY CARLOS
Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change...
WENDY DAVIS
Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care o...
WENDY DAVIS
I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now.
WENDY WHELAN
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to ...
WENDY DAVIS
Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.
WENDY MASS
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
WENDY MASS
Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision tha...
WENDY KOPP
He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
WENDY WALKER
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
WENDY WASSERSTEIN
Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
All the time.
WENDY MASS
You need to be flagrantly insouciant.
You care way too much.
And because of that you will...
WENDY WUNDER
One rose says more than the dozen
WENDY CRAIG
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get fr...
WENDY WASSERSTEIN
You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the bui...
WENDY KOPP
Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and i...
WENDY KOPP
I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a ...
WENDY KOPP
We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages ri...
WENDY KOPP
Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have ...
WENDY KOPP
On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic n...
WENDY KOPP
Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yours...
WENDY WHELAN
Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't ha...
WENDY KOPP
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort....
WENDY KOPP
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'...
WENDY DAVIS
when you hate a girl because she gets to kiss the boy you like, any little imperfection can become a...
WENDY BRANT
Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been...
WENDY KOPP
Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power...
WENDY DAVIS
Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend...
WENDY KOPP
Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in ...
WENDY WHELAN
It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from coll...
WENDY KOPP
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and s...
WENDY DAVIS
It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect...
WENDY DAVIS
I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
WENDY HIGGINS
Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering th...
WENDY KOPP
I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had ...
WENDY WHELAN
This is our home tonight. Anywhere with you is my home.
WENDY HIGGINS
Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education ...
WENDY KOPP