Center Cannot Hold Elyn Saks Quotes & Sayings

I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile. — Rudolfo Anaya

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything. — Stevie Nicks

Most girls covet dresses."
"I am not most girls. — V.E Schwab

Simply said, one is contingent through and through, partaking of being rather than generating it out of some source within oneself; and the same is true of the whole intricate web of interdependencies that constitutes nature. — David Bentley Hart

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have. — Judith Perelman Rossner

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to. — Karin Slaughter

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual. — Steven Pressfield

Wouldst thou find my ashes? Look
In the pages of my book;
And as these thy hand doth turn,
Know here is my funeral urn. — Adelaide Crapsey

I could not begin to mourn Deborah or my mind would ride off with me. There was nothing so delicate in all the world as one's last touch of control. — Norman Mailer

Darling,
do you remember
the man you married?
Touch me,
remind me who I am. — Stanley Kunitz

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers! — Vladimir Mayakovsky

It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity. — Theodore Plucknett

Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive. — Sam Hamill

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world. — Kay Ryan

It'll never get well if you pick it. — Noel Coward

But explaining what I've come to call "disorganization" is a different challenge altogether. Consciousness gradually loses its coherence. One's center gives way. The center cannot hold. The "me" becomes a haze, and the solid center from which one experiences reality breaks up like a bad radio signal. — Elyn R. Saks