D.A. > D.A.'s Quotes

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

“Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.”
― Diana Ross

“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”
― Quentin Crisp

“Death is not ambiguous.”
― D.A. Powell

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”
― Philip Roth

“Nothing is more real than nothing.”
― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
― Carson McCullers

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
― James Baldwin

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
― Gertrude Stein

“I’m an apple expert. Apples are the only exam I could ever hope to pass.”
― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.”
― Lan Samantha Chang, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost

“Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.”
― C. D. Wright

“Trust one who has gone through it.”
― Virgil

“There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.”
― Gertrude Stein

“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Athletes rejected, governors corrected
Gangsters, thugs and smugglers are thoroughly respected
The money gets divided
The women get excited
Now I'm broke and it's no joke
It's hard as hell to fight it, don't buy it!
”
― Grandmaster Flash, The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
― Novalis

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela

“You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

“For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.”
― Salman Rushdie

“I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.”
― John Dos Passos

“Grace has a grand laughter in it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
― Voltaire