Gianakos Quotes & Sayings

In two of your poems you called that central
Passage of womanhood a wound,
Instead of a curtain guarding a silken
Trail of sighs. How many men,
Upon regarding such beauty, helplessly
Touching it, recklessly needing
To enter its warmth again and again,
Have assumed it embodies their own ache
Of absence, the personal
Gash that has punished their lives.
So endowed of anatomy, any woman
Who has been loved
Knows that her tenderest blush
Of tissue is a luxe burden of have.
Although it bleeds, this is only to cleanse,
To prepare yet another nesting for love.
It is not a wound, friend.
It is a home for you.
It is a way into the world. — Michele Wolf

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing. — Karl Kraus

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy. — Walter Savage Landor

For I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now. — Robert W. Chambers

When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash out: you can see it in the media, scapegoating and penal sentencing. — Samantha Harvey

She stood with her slender arms hanging down, her scarcely defined bosom rising and falling regularly, and with bated breath and glittering, frightened eyes gazed straight before her, evidently prepared for the height of joy or misery. She — Leo Tolstoy

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love. — William Peter Blatty

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts. — Steve Backley

For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting. — Kevin Crossley-Holland

What did they want, those violent man, ragged, bellowing and wild-eyed, who with clubs and pikes poured through the ancient streets of distracted Paris? They wanted to put an end to oppression, tyranny, and the sword, they wanted work for all men, education for their children, security for their wives, liberty, equality, fraternity, food enough to go round, freedom of thought, the edenization of the world. In a word they wanted progress, that hallowed, good, and gentle thing, and they demanded it in a terrible fashion with oaths on their lips and weapons in their hands. They were barbarous, yes; but barbarians in the cause of civilization. — Victor Hugo

The first thing they teach you is how to be somebody else. It starts from the moment you're born. You're pulled out into the world to be peered at and analysed. — Zainab Omaki

My air bag went off this morning. I told her to shut the hell up. — Robert Leland Taylor

Love the people with whom fate brings you together — Marcus Aurelius

I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation. — Bela Karolyi