Irish Mums Quotes & Sayings

When did the world begin and how?"
I asked a lamb, a goat, a cow:

"What's it all about and why?"
I asked a hog as he went by:

"Where will the whole thing end, and when?"
I asked a duck, a goose, a hen:

And I copied all the answers too,
A quack, a honk, an oink, a moo. — Robert Clairmont

Poetry, I tell my students,
is idiosyncratic. Poetry
is where we are ourselves,
(though Sterling Brown said
"Every 'I' is a dramatic 'I'")
digging in the clam flats
for the shell that snaps,
emptying the proverbial pocketbook.
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.
Poetry (and now my voice is rising)
is not all love, love, love
and I'm sorry the dog died.
Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)
is the human voice,
and are we not of interest to each other? — Elizabeth Alexander

I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants. — Edmund Kemper

Nah, he's a good person, and fun, too. The point is, he called saying that he was in trouble, and need our help." "No, Patrick, you're the one who needs help. — Ryan Roy

Goethe argued there is no color in the physical world; there are only patterns of light and dark. These patterns are a sensation produced by our very souls. — John Gage

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. — Felix Dennis

Why be miserable when you can be happy? It's an obvious choice to me. — Tillie Cole

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant. — George Lucas

For most people, home we represented by four walls and a roof. Not for Noa. She preferred a motherboard to a mother, a keyboard to house keys. Nothing was more comforting than the hum of a spinning hard drive. — Michelle Gagnon

I bought a gun because POW POW sounds a lot better
than Hey, put that back! — Joe Torry

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers. — Samantha Bond

Your shower is ready - I turned it on last night. — Scott Adams

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke