Bongers Builders Quotes & Sayings

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper. — John Burnside

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender. — Jackson Katz

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line. — Edward Taylor

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor. — Chris Gethard

[Ruthie] ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? — Orson Scott Card

The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences. — Mark Dunn

I couldn't remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn't put a book down, and that was a tragedy. — Shannon Hale

The good news is that if you don't seal up your heart with caulking compound, and instead stay permeable, people stay alive inside you, and maybe outside you, too, forever. This — Anne Lamott