Contraption Def Quotes & Sayings

What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter. — William Faulkner

This for That

What will I have for breakfast?
I wish I had some plums
like the ones in Williams's poem.
He apologized to his wife
for eating them
but what he did not
do was apologize to those
who would read his poem
and also not be able to eat them.
That is why I like his poem
when I am not hungry.
Right now I do not like him
or his poem. This is just
to say that.

A kinesthesia for me! It is definitely the sort of poem that makes me go to the kitchen to check if a have some plumes. I really enjoy some of Padgett's poems! — Ron Padgett

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world. — Jane Fonda

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Why, like all men," she replied. Then added, repulsing him with a languid movement - "You are all evil! — Gustave Flaubert

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness. — Immanuel Wallerstein

If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something. — Trevor Noah

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings. — Bruce Cockburn

I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other. — Bill Willingham

When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single. — Jacob Ruppert

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm. — Daphne Gottlieb