Sestina Elizabeth Quotes & Sayings

Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house. — Elizabeth Bishop

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. — Robert Duvall

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place. — Douglas Crimp

I feel like there's a lot of great writing on television. — Henry Ian Cusick

Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light. — Truth Devour

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. — John Calvin

Bishop on "A Miracle for Breakfast" and Sestina Technique
It seems to me that there are two ways possible for a sestina. One is to use unusual words
as terminations, in which case they would have to be used differently as often as
possible - as you say, "change of scale." That would make a very highly seasoned kind of
poem. And the other way is to use as colorless words as possible - like Sidney, so that it
becomes less of a trick and more of a natural theme and variations. I guess I have tried to
do both at once. — Elizabeth Bishop

The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth. — Narendra Modi

he'd come to rely on her in the short time they'd been together. Could — Rebecca Zanetti

You ought to be curious and daring. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well. — Edith Hamilton

As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can't risk it all. — Alexa Von Tobel

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die. — Stanley Hauerwas