Baldessarini Artist Quotes & Sayings

Cursing themselves in ragged dreams
fire has singed the edges of,
they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.
Shimmering fans work against the heat
& smell of gunpowder, making money
float from hand to hand. The next moment
a rocket pushes a white fist
through night sky, & they scatter like birds
& fall into the shape their lives
have become. — Yusef Komunyakaa

He could hear me alright ... but he didn't answer me right away. He was the kind of guy that hates to answer you right away. — J.D. Salinger

Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for. — Shira Wolosky

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them. — Simon Schama

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands. — Hermann Hesse

The pool of people you care about is going to shift over time. — Emmett Shear

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings. — Barbara Holland

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later. — Sammy Hagar

Neither in the deepest ocean
Nor in the perpetual snow
Heaven was on earth that day
For some reason we are yet to know — Sameer Kumar

Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there. — Edward McKendree Bounds