We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.
quote by Esai Morales
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Earthworm Descent
Love watching earthworms
at night, with a flash light
shining on them as
they make their descent
into the ground.
So slimy are they
but so fun to try
and catch them
before they make
their descent
into the ground.
As a child used
to go into backyard
in search of the
earthworm watching
as it burrows into
the soil,
tying so hard to
crab them as they
slip through my fingers
and make their
descent into the ground.
Would just try to
catch them for
fun, not fishing
putting them in
a jar and watching
them as they
would burrow into
the soil.
Later would let
them go without
harm and watching
as they made
their descent
into the ground.
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
quote by Susan Lucci
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He who boasts of his descent is like a potato: the best part is underground.
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
quote by Eric Hobsbawm
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Gertrude Stein is interviewed on American poetry
and there was the knocking on the door
that we were expecting
and it was the man
that we were expecting
with the questions we were expecting
to which answers were expected
by those who expect answers
as if life were like that
which for writers it is not
yes, tea was drunk
and after tea the tape recorder set up
so that what I said
I would continue to say
somewhere else
even when I changed my mind
here and nowhere else
and he said Ms Stein
what do you think of American poetry
and we said well it's American
and it's poetry
that's as it should be
and really that's all there is to say
and the man looked disappointed
so we asked him did he read poetry
and he said poetry no I dont read poetry
but my editor does
so I said it's really about Americans
living their lives
that's what American poetry is really about
because Americans move around
and so their words move around and
words in English have lost their intensity
but American words are always on the move
and they are more intense
yes, Americans living among Americans
and talking to their neighbours
if it's not about that
it's not really American poetry at all is it
if it's not about that
then why bother writing poetry
and the man was asking about a rose
being a rose being a rose and we said
for a hundred years the rose
has not been red in poetry
but now for the first time in a hundred years
the rose is red again
and the man looked at his watch
and said thank you Ms Stein
and was switching off his tape recorder
and a month later that
was what we said
in a magazine much read
by Americans who mostly
are not poets no very few but we said it
we know that this is so
because we read it there
and we think that really
that was all there was to say
because that was all we think
is really important
about American Poetry
that the words move like Americans move
and that is exciting for a writer
and that is the important thing about
American Poetry
poem by Michael Shepherd
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
quote by Anaxagoras
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
quote by Anaxagoras
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Desperate Angel...
Desperate Angel...
In a starry night sky I take flight,
My powerful wings carry my ever higher,
Seeking the entrance to heavens gates,
Desperately I search for Nirvana's entrance,
Becoming more desperate with each passing breath,
Speeding recklessly across the night sky,
The cold wind biting against my naked flesh,
Yet my frantic search brings naught but frustration,
Desperate and alone my wings fail me,
Silently my rapid descent has begun,
As I fall the wind in my ears screams, FAILURE!
In my rapid descent a tear spills from my eye,
The nothingness that fills my heart too much to take,
Finally this destruction shall bring an end,
To the hell that has become my existence...
Spread the love... The peace will follow...
poem by Cosmic Dreamer
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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My life has been one long descent into respectability.
quote by Mandy Rice-Davies
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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
quote by Tia Carrere
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Unworthy offspring brag the most of their worthy descent.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Many make the descent to eternal darkness but few ascend to heaven.
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
quote by Simon Newcomb
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The gates of hell are open, night and day, smooth the descent, and easy the way.
quote by Virgil
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Simple Observation #133 - The grace of God has to do with......
The grace of God has to do with the descent of the Holy Spirit
and this in turn has some mystery or miracle associated with it.
poem by George Krokos
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