Karla Merrifield > Karla's Quotes

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“The size of the place that one becomes
a member of is limited only by
the size of one’s heart.”
― Gary Snyder

“If I am not crushed
by cliff slide
I will become
the summit”
― Karla Linn Merrifield, Lithic Scatter and Other Poems

“Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.”
― Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...”
― Colette

“What most people really desire is something quite different from industrial gimmickry- liberty, spontaneity, nakedness, mystery, wildness, wilderness.”
― Edward Abbey

“Showing off" The Grifters”
― grifter says it

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
― William James Dally

“I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.”
― François Mauriac