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  • #1
    Louise Glück
    “I watched the first shoots
    like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart
    broken by the blight, the black spot so quickly
    multiplying in the rows. I doubt
    you have a heart, in our understanding of
    that term. You who do not discriminate
    between the dead and the living, who are, in consequence,
    immune to foreshadowing...”
    Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    Rumi

  • #3
    Ronald Wright
    “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
    Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

  • #4
    Gertrude Stein
    “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #5
    Gertrude Stein
    “You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place
    between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting...

    It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #6
    William Blake
    “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
    William Blake

  • #7
    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    William Faulkner

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “Trapped

    don't undress my love
    you might find a mannequin:
    don't undress the mannequin
    you might find
    my love.
    she's long ago
    forgotten me.
    she's trying on a new
    hat
    and looks more the
    coquette
    than ever.

    she is a
    child
    and a mannequin
    and death.
    I can't hate
    that.
    she didn't do
    anything
    unusual.
    I only wanted her
    to.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #9
    Eduardo Galeano
    “The Church says: the body is a sin.
    Science says: the body is a machine.
    Advertising says: The body is a business.
    The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
    Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words
    tags: body

  • #10
    Anne Carson
    “Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”
    Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

  • #11
    Anne Carson
    “They were two superior eels
    at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.”
    Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

  • #12
    Anne Carson
    “He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.”
    Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

  • #13
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #14
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #15
    Rachel Zucker
    “a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier”
    Rachel Zucker

  • #16
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

  • #17
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #18
    Tony Hoagland
    “No matter how you feel you have to act
    like you are very popular with yourself;
    very relaxed and purposeful
    very unconfused
    and not
    like you are walking through the sunshine
    singing
    in chains.”
    Tony Hoagland

  • #19
    Tony Hoagland
    “So the avenues we walk down,
    full of bodies wearing faces,
    are full of hidden talent:
    enough to make pianos moan,
    sidewalks split,
    streetlights deliriously flicker.”
    Tony Hoagland

  • #20
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #21
    James Baldwin
    “One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”
    James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

  • #22
    Anton Chekhov
    “Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
    Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

  • #23
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #24
    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    Ilya Kaminsky
    “I believe that no great lyric poet ever speaks in the so-called “proper” language of his or her time. Emily Dickinson didn’t write in “proper” English grammar but in slant music of fragmentary perception. Half a world and half a century away, Cesar Vallejo placed three dots in the middle of the line, as if language itself were not enough, as if the poet’s voice needed to leap from one image to another, to make—to use Eliot’s phrase—a raid on the inarticulate. Paul Celan wrote to his wife from Germany, where he briefly visited from his voluntary exile in France: “The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.”
    Ilya Kaminsky

  • #28
    Atticus Lish
    “If a girl is traveling in the steppe and she sees nothing but a single moving dot in the great distance, the dot sees her. Stag, man, wolf.”
    Atticus Lish

  • #29
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art

  • #30
    Federico García Lorca
    “Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them).  Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood.”
    Federico García-Lorca



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