Matkin Quotes & Sayings

Thus we come to the problem of determining what the poem is 'about.' Charles Altieri notes that '[a]n expression of the self can be one that is intended, the self's act, or one that is symptomatic, the act of a self not in control of what it manifests'(24) In 'Yankee Doodle,' and to a lesser extent in '$$$$$$," the interesting aspects of the poem are not 'the intended expression of the self.' The lack of explicitness is not suggestive in any positive sense because we feel that were things to be spelled out, this would weaken, not strengthen, the narrator's case by revealing the unacknowledged irrationality at the root of it. — Russell Harrison

If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it. — Clay Shirky

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own. — Adam Lindsay Gordon

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut. — Zachary Cole Smith

We are not simply to read psalms; we are to be immersed in them so that they profoundly shape how we relate to God. The psalms are the divinely ordained way to learn devotion to our God. — Timothy Keller

So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana. — Richard Pryor