Louise > Louise's Quotes

“The secret of poetry is cruelty.”
― Jon Anderson

“Your face is a secret. Hiss, Hiss.”
― Larissa Szporluk

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the
resolution of doubts but in their proliferation”
― C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

“America likes to think

Every one can recover from every thing,
But about this,
Especially, America is wrong.”
― Liam Rector, The Executive Director of the Fallen World