Anything can happen Quote by Seamus Heaney

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

“It might never have happened. That’s among the most important lessons of history . . . and of life. There is so much around us that might…

— David McCullough

“it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,”

— Aristotle

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

— Mark Strand

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that…

— John Ashbery

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating…

— joan didion

“To say what happened, the mere facts, the disposition of events in time, would come to seem like a kind of treachery. The dominoes…

— Kevin Powers

“Anything can happen, and anything does;”

— Annie Dillard

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

— Howard Nemerov

“confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which…

— Joan Didion