“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I should kiss the face of the kitchen clock for luck. Perhaps its little hands with rapture would encircle my neck and we… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
“I think, therefore I am, said a man whose mother quickly hit him on the head, saying, I hit my son on the head,… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others. — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
“ Let us consider the farmer who makes his straw hat his sweetheart; or the old woman who makes a floor lamp her son;… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
“I never liked the term “experimental writing,” but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still don’t know… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying. — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
