Poetry Quote by Merrit Malloy Download Open image ““And I choose to be alone Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.”” — Merrit Malloy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.” — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be alone than surrounded by people that make me feel alone.” — Hannah Trank Copy Share Image
“I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.” — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
“If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is who I really am. Not a loner, exactly. But someone who can be alone.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them. — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
“Whatever it means, it matters, and most of it is true I loved every one of them and all of them...were you” — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
“Compromise...is simply When we change the question To fit the answer...” — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents. — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
“The Long Way Home Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other? Why do people walk… — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
“There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.” — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
“There are people who cannot say good-bye They are born this way/this is how they die They are the keepers of promises/what moves them does not wear out Their loyalty will tear apart your clocks These are the people who can hear the music in songs They are the Vow carriers The grandmothers who always leave the porchlight on No… — Merrit Malloy Copy Share
What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are. — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
“That One Man (from The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye) There is always that one man who you can't avoid that one face that… — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
“PRIVATE PRACTICES We may all get there...we may even arrive at the same time...but we all come alone” — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving 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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share