Dicing Potatoes Quotes & Sayings

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig

The birds are in their trees,
the toast is in the toaster,
and the poets are at their windows.
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The proofreaders are playing the ping-pong
game of proofreading,
glancing back and forth from page to page,
the chefs are dicing celery and potatoes,
and the poets are at their windows
because it is their job for which
they are paid nothing every Friday afternoon. — Billy Collins

You must be prepared and know the
reason why you dance. — Thomas Yellowtail

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes. — William S. Burroughs

I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out. — Anthony Kiedis

What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing. — Isabel Allende

I find a source of love in everything that breathes, moves, touches, whispers, smiles. I wake up everyday to search and find love in the wild dream of loneliness. — Harshada Pathare

She doesn't know anything about Caleb. I am the one he fell in love with first. I am the one who hurt him most. Broken hearts, tears and regret tie me to him. — Tarryn Fisher

Everyone ate as a group, and a huge cauldron of dumpster-dived gruel bubbled over a campfire, tended by a grubby-handed group of chefs dicing potatoes and onions on a piece of cardboard on the ground. Huck [Finn] may have been right that a 'barrel of odds and ends' where the 'juice kind of swaps around' makes for better victuals, but it occurred to me that the revolution may well get dysentery. — Matthew Power