Father Crow and Other Poems Quotes

“I was born with my eyes turned inward.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“Poetry is a beacon slicer.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“Sincerity is the defence of every misanthrope.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems

“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.”
― David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems