Indifference Quote by Lisel Mueller Download Open image “When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.” — Lisel Mueller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Indifference Nature Poetry Writing Writing poems
We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the… — Kendall Dana Lockerman 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
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“Some say; “Poetry is what gets lost in translation!” In this sense, my life is a bitter poem. But that is the force of… — Fereidoon Yazdi Copy Share Image
“What can I say to convince you the Houses of Parliament dissolve night after night to become the fluid dream of the Thames? I… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives. — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“By the time I arrive at evening, / they have just settled down to rest; / already invisible, they are turning / into the… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical. — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“Late Hours" On summer nights the world moves within earshot on the interstate with its swish and growl, and occasional siren that sends chills… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the table four… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“I will not return to a universe of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long lost children… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude. — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally. — Abba Hillel Silver Copy Share Image
