Fall Quote by Lawrence Durrell Download Open image “To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.” — Lawrence Durrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fall Falling off Lizards Poetry Tails Trying Writing
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“I’ve only written one decent poem in my life called “Lizard up My Leg”: A lizard up my leg gave me a fright Not… — Danny Rubin Copy Share Image
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time -… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love. — Nick Love Copy Share Image
“When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
