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Favorite Quotes

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:54 pm
by Marc Gilbert
Here's one of mine to kick things off:
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

G.K. Chesterton

Re: Favorite Quotes

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:03 am
by Tracy Mitchell
If there is such as thing as meant to be, this ain't it.  -- the Old Cowboy

Re: Favorite Quotes

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:09 am
by Tracy Mitchell
One problem the (essentially) prose writer has when switching to poetry, is that they want to fill in the details the way prose-readers demand and like.  Detail is sometimes important in poetry also, but it is picturing detail, rather than progression detail.  -- Sparky Dashforth




 

Re: Favorite Quotes

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:11 pm
by Marc Gilbert
We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity. It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Favorite Quotes

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:30 pm
by Tom
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” 
― Robert Frost

Re: Favorite Quotes

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 12:04 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
There are two sounds in the world which don't have to mean anything -- music, and laughter.  Immanuel Kant

Re: Favorite Quotes

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:46 am
by Tracy Mitchell
Pick a piece of wood floating in the river and follow it down the current with your glance, keeping the eyes constantly on it, without getting ahead of the current. This is the way poetry should be read: at the pace of a line.

-- Vera Pavlova

Re: Favorite Quotes

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:04 pm
by Colm Roe
'I might be small, but I'm fucking dangerous'
A very small Irish friend facing up to a very tall German man by a swimming pool in Ibiza 1982.
Or any antigen you'd care to mention  :)  

Re: Favorite Quotes

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:33 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
:D :D Nice attribution.

Re: Favorite Quotes

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:25 am
by Tracy Mitchell
"Is it out of fashion to regard stones as sentient? Yes, no doubt. For all we know, it’s also out of fashion in the literature of stones to regard people as sentient. Perhaps a cottonwood tree doesn’t “sing” because it is like a man, but rather a man sings because he is like a cottonwood tree."

-- Connie Wanek, Poet