The Best American Poetry 1999 Quotes & Sayings

Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep? — Galway Kinnell

This dark December day inspires him to write / the plainest things in the snow, then walk away. — Chard DeNiord

Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other. — William Matthews

She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart. — Russell Edson

More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you. — Donna Tartt

Without love in you life, you have nothing. — Wynonna Judd

You saved me, you should remember me. — Louise Gluck

Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past! — Stefano Benni

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master. — John Newton

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on. — Wayne Thiebaud

One of the things I've found now, not just for television, but in the restaurant, is that you have many anxious chefs, who know how to cook twenty recipes really well, but they don't have a good foundation for other things. — Wolfgang Puck

The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof. — Ron Kaufman