Marlena Days Quotes & Sayings

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. — Viktor E. Frankl

Also there's two sides of it, I mean, a band like us, at our level and the way we have to promote ourselves and usually radio just completely turns their back on us, at the same time I think Mp3s help promote us somewhat, spreading the word about the album and stuff. — Kenny Hickey

Life is this conto, account," said the banker in him. "It's an unknown quantity of days from which one is permitted to withdraw only one precious one of them at a time. No deposits accepted. — Marlena De Blasi

The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops. — H.P. Lovecraft

Never be born, never be died. — Ted Berrigan

When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown. — Sharon Jones

Even in these first days together, it is very clear that this feeling of mine for the stranger has trumped all the other adventures in my life. It has shuffled everything and everyone else I thought I was moving toward or away from. — Marlena De Blasi

Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning:
its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the
meaning of things themselves. This is why it clouds the language, increases
as much as it can the abstractness of the concept and the arbitrariness
of the sign and stretches to the limit the link between signifier and signified. — Roland Barthes

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern. — John Berger

What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition. — Harold Bloom