Kofford Lecture Quotes & Sayings

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women. — Carl Jung

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand. — Francoise Sagan

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. — Francis Quarles

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, Enough! — Queen Latifah

And her smile showed for a moment, even as the moon came out of the clouds and went away. "Isn't it silly?"
"No. Men do the same. They take long walks when they're sixteen, seventeen. They don't stand on lawns, waiting, no. But, my God, how they walk! Miles and miles from midnight until dawn and come home exhausted and explode and die in bed. — Ray Bradbury

favorite lavender or go for something more — Roma Brooks

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live. — Britt Daniel

McEwan's Atonement ... truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past ... . The middle section of Atonement, the two vividly realized set pieces of Robbie's trek to the Channel and Briony's experiences with the wounded evacuees of Dunkirk, would alone have made an outstanding novel ... . There is wonderful writing throughout as McEwan weaves his many themes - the accidents of contingency, the sins of absent fathers, class oppression - into his narrative, and in a magical love scene. — Noah Richler

You take a word,
you stitch it to another word,
with threads of your soul.
It's called poetry. — Jenim Dibie

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war — Elie Wiesel

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial. — Tina Brown

your lack of knowledge may not for you but surely it is dangerous for your child because you cannot teach them which you your self do not know — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path — Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez