Famous Galway Kinnell Quotes & Sayings

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg

For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices. — Audre Lorde

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. — Julie Bowen

To think is to practice brain chemistry. — Deepak Chopra

Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy. — Fatih Birol

I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains. — Bruce Dern

I reckon we could all use an opportunity to endear ourselves to our wives." He looked to Rycliff and Thorne. "When's the last time you did something heroic for your lady?"
Rycliff smirked. "Last night."
Thorne drained his tankard and cracked his neck. "This morning."
"I didn't mean in bed," Colin said. Under his breath he added, "Braggarts. — Tessa Dare

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. — Millicent Fenwick

At most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, rose on his fore paws and began to gaze at them. The sun, which now stood low, illuminated his huge head and shaggy breasts, and in that ruddy luster he was like one of those sphinxes which ornament the entrances to ancient Egyptian temples. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

A fish cannot be aware of the ocean, before jumping up out of water. — Rixa White

Years ago there was an old man I knew that told me he didn't trust me, because people with beards were hiding from something. I told him, That's true, I'm hiding from the barber!! — Neil Leckman

The great anguishes of the soul always come upon us like cosmic cataclysms. When they do, the sun errs from its course and the stars are troubled. A day will come to every feeling soul when Fate stages an apocalypse of anguish, an upturning of all known heavens and universes over the soul's desolation. — Fernando Pessoa

One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a smouldering cigar. It is almost worthy of a study in air currents to discover why with plenty of space all around, a tiny column of smoke will make straight for the nostrils of the very one most nauseated by it! — Emily Post

Don't you feel it, beautiful, when we touch, doesn't it shift something in you? — V. Theia