Author Quotes

Is it for miracles
We live? I like it when the morning sun lights up my room Like a yellow jelly bean, an inner glow. May mutters: "Why ask questions?" or, "What are the questions you wish to ask?"

Pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.

Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

Wonder is music heard in the heart, is voiceless...

Rosemary Dobson
Rosemary Dobson
If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

Susan Howe
Susan Howe
Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

Beth Gutcheon
Beth Gutcheon
A church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.

Mazo de la Roche
Mazo de la Roche
The only people who are truly happy are the people we do not know very well...

Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacs
Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Do they miss me at home, do they miss me?
'T would be an assurance most dear
To know that this moment some loved one
Was saying, 'Oh were she but here!'

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

King James of England wrote the Bible... and he made you niggers happy hewers of wood and told you to serve your masters faithfully and you'd get your reward in heaven. You all believe that shit and been worshipping a white Jesus ever since. How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it? Answer me that?

Every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado
Don Carlos was one of those peaceful and indolent men who do not know how to do evil, nor to go to great lengths to do good.

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.

I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.

Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley
Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

Finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.