Abyss Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abyss Daring Feels Poet Poetry Professors
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“In some ways Coleridge committed a form of artistic suicide attempting to solve the complicated mystery he saw in the flocking starlings. In a… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it,… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that… — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet The… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
