Clareys Quotes & Sayings

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first. — William James

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on. — John Wyndham

Conceive a canvas for a lyrical or fairytale buffoonery, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown everything in an abnormal and dreamy atmosphere, - in the atmosphere of the great days. - It must be something soothing, - even serene in its passion. - Regions of pure Poetry. — Charles Baudelaire

You better find out what you want in life, because that's what you're going to get! — James Kirkwood Jr.

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do. — Sam Hamill

What a fucking charade.
Happy. That shit isn't in our cards. - Duke — Stephanie Witter