Cliffs Quote by Charles Bukowski Download Open image “There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.” — Charles Bukowski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cliffs Edges Men Poetry Writing Writing poetry
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being.… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“When my life is unraveling, and everything about it is slack, my poems are taut. My poems take the fray and wind it back… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.” — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“nerves twitching in the sheets -- to face the sunlight again, that's clearly trouble. I like the city better when the neon lights are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I climbed the stairway (there was no elevator) and put the key in. The door swung open. Somebody had changed all the furniture around,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic:… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy. — Stephen Colletti Copy Share Image
I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
