"If food is poetry, is not poetry also…" — Joyce Carol Oates

"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

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More Food Quotes

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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary… — Paul Auster
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.… — Chinua Achebe
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms… — Diane Ackerman
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very… — Sai Baba
Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call… — Antonio Banderas
I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just… — Tyra Banks

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