Poem Quote by Jack Spicer Download Open image ““ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.”” — Jack Spicer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poem
“A goddess who had dragged herself out of the ocean then become an ordinary old woman.” — Alexis Wright Copy Share Image
“Personally, I don't think that having a water goddess for an ancestress is a guarantee of freedom against seasickness, nor come to that, shipwreck.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes divine courage to let go and end up in an ocean of the unknown.” — Leta Blake Copy Share Image
“One night when we were sleeping they threw my wife and myself into the sea. My wife, however, was a fairy, and so she… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“The ocean is not to be trusted. It's dark and cold with a treacherous current that pulls you whichever way it wants. It can… — Em Bailey Copy Share Image
“I kneel on the planks for her blessing, and then sit beside her with my feet dangling over the edge and my own reflection… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Those who dare to dive into the oceans, often finds treasures; no one ever heard. Take a leap of faith, every soul is having… — Mohammad Shahzaib Ansari Copy Share Image
“I put the words into a flask and flung them out to sea. Flung them far out from me, made through myself, but not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun. Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“You know, the ocean is a very, very beautiful place. It is God’s gift to us,” — Lynne Cox Copy Share Image
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries ... — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Well Dennis you don't have to hear any of the mountain music they play here. Telling the young lies so that they can learn… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired… — Jack Spicer 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
“Whatever you want," he said. "Will you please come here now?" I slipped a piece of protective tissue over my drawing and flipped the… — Melissa Jensen 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
“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this world more… — Deeper sense of presence Isabella koldras Copy Share Image
