Alive Quote by Natalie Merchant Download Open image “Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.” — Natalie Merchant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Poetry Recitation
Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it. — James Wright Copy Share Image
Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have! — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life is sweet… — Natalie Merchant 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
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens 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
