Scaramellini Quotes & Sayings

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him; the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-caked fingers, glittering and precise; but ultimately his poem is the echoing, dual voice reporting the damages. — Samuel R. Delany

The ISIS situation is not just "their problem to deal with in the Middle East," it's OUR PROBLEM because it involves people Jesus died for. — Perry Noble

This is the last time you'll read the phrase "his or her" or "he or she"; from this point on, I'll use one or the other pronoun and assume you understand that any sex could apply. — Mark Steven Bosko

How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all. — William Congreve

Revolutionaries are insomniacs, too afraid of history's nightmare to sleep, too troubled by the world's ills to be less than awake. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there. — Kacey Musgraves

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place. — Virginia Postrel

My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively. — Woody Allen