Unmelted Quotes & Sayings

The canon is finished. Anyone who believes that one can construct a canon from the tidal wave of narrative produced today is guilty of wishful thinking. All we will have is a record of who won the prizes and achieved celebrity status. But, perhaps, the canon was always a fairly heavy-handed tool and little more than a convenience. The only thing is to follow one's nose and listen carefully to the way others talk about books, learn who's opinion takes you to interesting places. — Tim Parks

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical. — Steve Earle

There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created — Cristina Henriquez

I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player. — George W. Bush

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties. — Susan Stewart

To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears
THAT is Christianity! — Watchman Nee

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men. — Eugene O'Neill

You are the kind of women who makes me believe in God...I don't know how else it could be possible to find you. — Charlie N. Holmberg

The choices we make in life are equally important to us, as those of others are to them. It is an arrogant attitude in the mind of those who feel superior to believe their choices are better than others. Having respect for others regardless of who they are is the greatest choice anyone can make. — Ellen J. Barrier

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power. — Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you do, never forget to love everyone around you. — Debasish Mridha