Poetry Quote by Rudy Francisco Download Open image ““Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.”” — Rudy Francisco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Writing Writing poetry
“You've been so used to fighting Wars with a gun in your hand that you forget to put it down. Not every fight requires… — Lori Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“They didn’t understand, they just didn’t understand. You fight the war with guns, you fight the peace with stories.” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
“I reach out in love, my hands are guns, my good intentions are completely lethal.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“you'll accomlish more with a kind word and a gun, than you will with a kind word alone.” — al capone Copy Share Image
“The first rule of a gunfight was to bring a gun. The second was to bring a bunch of friends with guns,” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
“Never bring a knife to a gun fight," I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks about it… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Guns discommode me. Their facility alarms me. Point and kill. Ruin someone's life. Remove at a finger pull deeply loved people, as important in… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.” — Roberto Bolano ( ) Natasha Wimmer Copy Share Image
“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” — Al Capone Copy Share Image
“I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“Never ever forget that you are a constellation and I have owned a telescope since the day I was born.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin.… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“The word “repurpose” means to take an object and give it amnesia. It means to make something forget what it’s been trained to do… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical.… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“I hate you, but I still I miss you, and a part of me still loves you.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“On May 26th, 2003, Aaron Ralston was hiking, a boulder fell on his right hand, he waited four days, he then amputated his own… — Rudy Francisco 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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image