Marilena Echohawk Quotes & Sayings

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. — Anne Stevenson

The first two concepts - morality and immorality - are well understood in America: codes and boundaries of behavior are set by principles, doctrines, dictate, or convention. It's the third one - amorality - that is largely misunderstood but crucial to identify and comprehend. Amorality is a state of affairs where there are no moral principles or rules to follow or betray. None. Even though a culture may have rules regarding physical behavior, if there are no moral standards regarding truth, for example, then one cannot be right or wrong in such a societal vacuum because there is nothing to be right or wrong about. Therefore, even if lip service to the virtue of truth telling exists on one level or another, lying is firmly established in many cultures as an amoral practice. — Alexandra York

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. — Madeleine L'Engle

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. — Jez Butterworth

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You might think the word "homemade" is just a word we use as a marketing ploy. But what you don't realize is that the staff sleeps here at night. If your tablecloth is wrinkled, that's why. — Scott Adams

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard. — Paula Zahn

To hell with what I deserve," Murdo whispered. "All I want is you. — Joanna Chambers