Clampitt Quotes & Sayings

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes. — Amy Clampitt

There is a limit to how much a seer wishes to see. — Avi

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. — Amy Clampitt

Meridian


First daylight on the bittersweet-hung
sleeping porch at high summer; dew
all over the lawn, sowing diamond-
point-highlighted shadows;
the hired man's shadow revolving
along the walk, a flash of milkpails
passing; no threat in sight, no hint
anywhere in the universe, of that

apathy at the meridian, the noon
of absolute boredom; flies
crooning black lullabies in the kitchen,
milk-soured crocks, cream separator
still unwashed; what is there to life
but chores and more chores, dishwater,
fatigue, unwanted children; nothing
to stir the longueur of afternoon

except possibly thunderheads;
climbing, livid, turreted alabaster
lit up from within by splendor and terror
-- forded lightening's
split-second disaster. — Amy Clampitt

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. — Amy Clampitt

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago. — Amy Clampitt

I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left. — Geraldine Laybourne

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. — Amy Clampitt

I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old. — Adrian Younge

You told him, huh? Through your secret wizarding network that you still haven't told me about."
"It's called a letter in the mail," he said. — T.J. Klune

I have no sugar. I don't eat fruit or even fruit juice because of the sugar. I eat chicken and salmon and rice. — Britney Spears