Sestina Poem Quotes & Sayings

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you, when you have chosen Him. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos. — Aaron Sorkin

He sprayed on a bit of this man's body-spray thing his mom had gotten for free at Walmart, feeling like a douche, but thinking it was better to feel like a douche than to smell like an asshole. — Lauren Oliver

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

Necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others - to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line. — M. Scott Peck

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts. — Khalil Gibran

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films. — Cary Fukunaga

Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames. — Sarah Hall

(Remember: There's no such thing as a mistake in the kitchen, just a new recipe waiting to be discovered!) — Steven Raichlen

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration. — Lincoln Ellsworth

There are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done — Evan Meekins

Lehman uses many conveyances - including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes - to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity. — Ken Tucker