Seifert Quotes & Sayings

All my life I have been faithful to love. — Jaroslav Seifert

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead. — Saul Alinsky

One of the things about writing that inspires
and impresses me, is the music words can make. And, like music, the spaces between the notes can mean as much as the notes themselves.
The Jesus Horse — Melinda West Seifert

Associational logic," a muscle rarely worked by prose: its "occlusion, or difficulty," she wrote, "healing me, forcing me to privilege my heart, my intuition. — Anonymous

When I was hungry
I fed almost daily
on the words of her songs. — Jaroslav Seifert

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying. — Jaroslav Seifert

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. — Friedrich Schiller

We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had. — Christine Seifert

Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It's who we become that gives the story body, form and meaning. — Melinda West Seifert

I have a low taste for urban fantasy and paranormal romance. — Charles Stross

Change is both exciting and scary. Learning new skills is the same. Having an idea of what to expect emotionally is as important as knowing what to expect from both real and imagined limitations. — Melinda West Seifert

Sure, cried the tenant men,but it's our land ... We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours ... .That's what makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it."
"We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't like a man."
"Yes, but the bank is only made of men."
"No, you're wrong there - quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. — John Steinbeck

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version. — Walter Hill

I wouldn't point fingers if I were you. You know what they say: those who point fingers wind up with them broken so badly they point straight back at them. - Shazad — Alwyn Hamilton

The worst is yet to come:
I'm still alive. — Jaroslav Seifert

But to cast my life away just like that
for nothing at all
that
I won't do. — Jaroslav Seifert

George Jones and I happen to share the same birthday. The first and only time I met him (which I believe was at the Opry if my memory serves me), I told him that. His response, 'You must be trouble.' Takes one to know one, I am so proud to say. George, his music and his mischievous trouble, will all be missed. He is a country legend. — Jennifer Nettles

A lad changed to a shrub in spring,
the shrub into a shepherd boy,
A fine hair to a lyre string,
snow into snow on hair piled high. — Jaroslav Seifert

Those who despair of life are not long for it. — Elizabeth Janeway

We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us. — Melinda West Seifert

Everything on earth has happened before,
nothing is new,
but woe to the lovers
who fail to discover a fresh blossom
in every future kiss. — Jaroslav Seifert

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder. — Jonathan Franzen

There was a war all over the world
and all over the world
was grief.
And yet I whispered into jewelled ears
verses of love.
It makes me feel ashamed.
But no, not really. — Jaroslav Seifert

In France, the literary fairy tale was a genre initially established by a group of women (and a few men, including Perrault, who frequented their circles and salons). Lewis Seifert has estimated that more than two-thirds of the tales that appeared during the first wave of fairy-tale production in France (between 1690 and 1715) were written by women. For more than a century the tales of d'Aulnoy, Lheritier, La Force, Bernard, and other women dominated the field of fairy tales and were the touchstones of the genre. They were often long, intricate, digressive, playful, self-referential, and self-conscious - far from the blunt terseness that Benjamin and many others would associate with the form. — Elizabeth Wanning Harries

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up. — Prince William