Cannatonic Review Quotes & Sayings

During my sixteen years as a teacher of writing, I removed many adverbs and adverbial phrases from students' writing. I decided long ago that a writer who needlessly modifies words is either a nervous writer who does not believe in the worth of what they are writing or a vain writer who wants to be seen as discriminating and sensitive to nuances or meaning. — Gerald Murnane

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry. — Victor Hugo

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes. — William Shakespeare

Music really isn't supposed to be perfect. It's all about people relating to each other and doing something that's really from the soul. It must come from the soul. — Tom Petty

He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light — Michael Ondaatje

To put this even more bluntly, one might think about the difference between adding traditional and contemporary Indigenous art to the National Gallery of Canada's historical Canadian wing and imagining the entire gallery curated from an Indigenous perspective of what a "National Gallery of Canada" might mean.37 Put slightly differently, the project of Indigenous representation in the gallery in Canada has been defined as "bringing aboriginal art in to the history of Canadian art" rather than of incorporating settler history into the history of Aboriginal art.38 Would such reimaginings mean, for example, a move away from the primacy of a liberal politic and of the artist genius as a cultural application of that politic? — Lynda Jessup

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context. — Neal A. Maxwell

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening the ax. — Abraham Lincoln

Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want. — Brenna Yovanoff

A day doesn't go by where I don't create something. — Patti Smith