Oliver > Oliver's Quotes

“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
― William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems

“Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.”
― Michael Swanwick

“Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful”
― Thomas M. Disch

“Our bodies are stardust; our lives are sunlight.”
― Oliver Morton, Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet

“A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.”
― Oliver Morton

“I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.”
― Charles Percy Snow, The Masters