Poetry Quote by J.D. Salinger

“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of…

— J.D. Salinger

“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like…

— J.D. Salinger

“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything.…

— J.D. Salinger

“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was… The only thing that would be different would…

— J.D. Salinger

“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you…

— J.D. Salinger

“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.”

— J.D. Salinger

“He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big pimple on…

— J.D. Salinger

“For example, when Seymour told one of the twins or Zooey or Franny or even Mme. Boo Boo (who was only two years younger…

— J.D. Salinger

“One thing? One thing I like? Okay.”

— J.D. Salinger

“The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn’t have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We’d…

— J.D. Salinger

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

“In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another…

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