David St. John Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 7 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by David St. John.
Famous Quotes By David St. John
Having your evening coffee over
A field guide of trails or alpine blossoms
& so I need now to ask you
Which of the old journals did you first
Open to a map of my long wandering
When did you first know I'd come back
& how did you find yourself here
& how did you know this single lantern
You are reading by was the last possible
Light to lead me home? — David St. John
Place in writing often exists at that intersection between the reality of place and one's imagination about that place -- what one believes, hopes, or imagines about the various possibilities of oneself in that place. — David St. John
There is nothing "still" in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems. — David St. John
There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work. — David St. John
When I came to see you
It hurt me how thin you had become
In the months of addiction & disease
& although your particular abyss
Was a man & not a drug
The degradation was the same
The same wasting of the flesh
The same tapped-out well emptied
Of the least leaf of emotion
The same frozen rage — David St. John
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope. — David St. John
It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home. — David St. John