Hicok Poems Quotes & Sayings

Something in Mama's voice was vast and high, like a rainbow; yet something sad and deep, like when the organ played in church, was around Mama's words. — Ralph Ellison

Know that nothing anyone ever does to you can be as terrible as what you do yourself. Remember that. — David Clement-Davies

There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you're quit of them. — Shana Abe

And he was such a polite, mannerly old boy; simple and kind as a child. I used to wonder how anybody so innocent and defenceless had managed to get along at all, to keep alive for nearly seventy years in as hard a world as this. Anybody could take advantage of him. He held no grudge against any of the people who had misused him. — Willa Cather

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend, — Robert Wuhl

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. — Joseph Butler

I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing. — Isabel Allende

May today be a happy memory, tomorrow a bright new promise. Happy Birthday — Rob Jackson

I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies. — Ann Nocenti

The Risen Christ is the standing icon of humanity in its final and full destiny. He is the pledge and guarantee of what God will do with all of our crucifixions. At last, we can meaningfully live with hope. It is no longer an absurd or tragic universe. Our hurts now become the home for our greatest hopes. — Richard Rohr

When you alter yourself, the alterations become the truth ... — Margaret Atwood

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent. — Jackie Chan

Making it in poetry
The young teller
at the credit union
asked why so many
small checks
from universities?
Because I write
poems I said. Why
haven't I heard
of you? Because
I write poems
I said. — Bob Hicok