Wojahn Quotes & Sayings

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me. — Sam Palladio

It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman. — Dana Bash

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything. — Fred Ward

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts. — Bryant McGill

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me. — Jessica Savitch

The other thing that's happened with writing is that I'm not afraid it will go away. Up until a couple of years ago, I feared that sitting down with paper and pencil revealed too much desire and that for such ambition I would be punished. My vocabulary would contract anorexia, ideas would be born autistic, even titles would not come to flirt with me anymore. I suppose this was tied to that internal judge, the serpent who eats her own tail. She insinuates you're not good enough; you believe her and try less, ratifying her assessment; so you try even less; and on and on. This snake survives on your dying. Finally, now, the elided words of my wisest writing teacher, the poet David Wojahn, make sense. "Be ambitious," he said, "for the work." Not for the in-dwelling editor. That bitch was impossible to please anyway. — Marsha L. Larsen

How wrong and petty any life is. — David Wojahn

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."
And facing death changes that?
"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. — Mitch Albom

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top. — Clayton Christensen

All places communicate instantly with all other places, a sense of isolation is felt only during the trip between one place and the other, that is, when you are in no place. — Italo Calvino