Aubie Stuffed Quotes & Sayings

When people talk about poetry as a project, they suggest that the road through a poem is a single line. When really the road through a poem is a series of lines, like a constellation, all interconnected. Poems take place in the realm of chance, where the self and the universal combine, where life exist. I can't suggest to you that going through a line that is more like a constellation than a road is easy - or that the blurring of the self and the universal doesn't shred a poet a little bit in the process. The terrain of a poem is unmapped (including the shapes of the trees along the constellation-road). A great poet knows never to expect sun or rain or cold or wind in the process of creating a poem. In a great poem all can come to the fore at once. It would be worse yet, if none are there at all. — Dorothea Lasky

The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue. — Thomas Gray

Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls.
Quinn — Beth Harbison

Fuckin' my man in my bed," he said over Gabriel's shoulder. "You got some goddamn nerve, girl. — Cara McKenna

It's important to be true to yourself and your vision. — Nicole Polizzi

If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present. — Roy Bennett

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. — Susan Sontag

Since the discovery of the fermented grape, humans have experienced the pain and the frustration of addiction. — David W. Earle

He had been guilty once or twice of believing he understood, only to discover he did not ... There were times, he saw, when not knowing was the biggest truth, and you had to stay with that. — Rachel Joyce

Anyone who lives sees, but he who moves
sees more. — Clinton Bailey

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation. — Jenna Blum

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences. — Joshua Foer