Girien Quotes & Sayings

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery. — Matthea Harvey

With the city like this, don't we have greater needs than poetry? — China Mieville

Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more. — Amy Poehler

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes. — Ric Ocasek

Memories: some can be sucker punching, others carry you forward; some stay with you forever, others you forget on your own. You can't really know which ones you'll survive if you don't stay on the battlefield, bad times shooting at you like bullets. But if you're lucky, you'll have plenty of good times to shield you. — Adam Silvera

Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom. — Christopher Dutton

Fuck my country and yours, they will continue fighting whether we live or die. But I can't, and won't, go on without you. Not anymore. — S.A. McAuley

The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios ... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies. — Steven Spielberg

She didn't know the answer. But there had to be a way. There was always a way. — Anne Ursu

There are days when I wake/ and find my face is a hole/ and I have nowhere to hang my mask. — Carl Adamshick

Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go. — Judith Orloff

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps ... It just feels right. — David Hobson

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it ... — Randall Jarrell