Hammacott Celebration Quotes & Sayings

The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too. — Gene Weingarten

I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things. — Anousheh Ansari

For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone. — Chuck Palahniuk

Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
to get from here to there. — Elizabeth Alexander

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. — Thomas Carlyle

I just liked being around you, even if we didn't say anything. — Matthew Quick