Meeropols Quotes & Sayings

I have nothing against dogs. I just hate rugs that go squish-squish. — Phyllis Diller

To look into the eyes of a cannibal. I turn away at the thought. — Carol Birch

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had. — Andrew Jackson

If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last. — Amy Tan

The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt ... He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity ... — Raymond Queneau