Domitila Nigerian Quotes & Sayings

When people start talking about enjambment and line endings, I always shut them up. This is not something to talk about, this is a private matter, it's up to the poet. — James Tate

Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare
Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery
Can leave the mother, murdered at her door,
To crawl in her own blood, and go scott-free;
The night can sweat with terror as before
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy,
And planned to bring the world under rule,
Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. — W.B.Yeats

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall. — Cecelia Ahern

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it. — Lindsay Wagner

This then will be the shape and the feel of the world: an abandoned shell, signs of old life, curious animals wandering in and out of ruins, the wilderness crowding in, overtaking all human structures and human things. — Ben H. Winters

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami

For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone. — Nina Berberova

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence. — Walter J. Phillips

[On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties
the men are gay and the women are in their nineties. — Alice-Leone Moats

I don't pay much attention to sports. — Jack Abramoff

clearly besotted with — Hanya Yanagihara

I find it hard to believe you forgot the face of the guy who fucked you retarded and then treated you like shit. — Stylo Fantome