Metapoetry Quotes & Sayings

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation. — Marshall McLuhan

The nature of poems
Is a matter of words and deeds
An intimate encounter of voice
In the ache of the heart
In the labor of breathing
A hesitant casting of eyes
Away from the mundane to see
That delicate and shiny thing
In the oddly prosaic rock pile
An extravagance of conceit
An abundance of grace
A prayer for words to speak — Kendall Dana Lockerman

If you take a shower with your boyfriend, I guarantee by the time you step out of that shower, your breasts will be sparkling clean. — Sarah Silverman

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move. — Darnell Lamont Walker

There had been many such experiments when he worked in South Africa, in Vlakplaas, a notorious apartheid death camp. — Chris Abani

To many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss. — Judith Ellen Foster

A girl could get to hate Doms. — Cherise Sinclair

Him.You are good, O God, and You are faithful. Tenderize and soften our Lenten hearts, we pray, lest they grow brittle and break. — Jan Karon

Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from — Kendrick Lamar

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain — Steve Chalke

The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy. — Glen Duncan