Poetry Quote by Cameron Conaway Download Open image ““A poet could kill the dead.”” — Cameron Conaway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Reputation
“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.” — Michael S. Harper Copy Share Image
“Everything was going to kill you, poetry as well, and the last was the most deadly.” — Brian Castro Copy Share Image
“We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
