Quotes & Sayings About Daniel Brennan

Poetry ~~ No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requistions. It is indeed all that we do not know. The poet does not need to see how meadows are something else than earth, grass, and water, but how they are thus much. He does not need discover that potato blows are as beautiful as violets, as the farmer thinks, but only how good potato blows are. The poem is drawn out from under the feet of the poet, his whole weight has rested on this ground. It has a logic more severe than the logician's. You might as well think to go in pursuit of the rainbow, and embrace it on the next hill, as to embrace the whole of poetry even in thought. — Henry David Thoreau

Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing. — Abhijit Naskar

I'm a little flattered you're worried, but - " "Don't be." He grinned. "Do you know how much paperwork is involved when people get killed in prison? — Darynda Jones

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan) — Sabrina Jeffries

He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give. — George Herbert

When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I had said, "I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals. — Paul Fussell

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game. — Terrell Owens

And in my private life I prefer not to pass myself off as what I'm not (Daniel Brennan) — Sabrina Jeffries