Poet Quote by Stephen Dobyns

Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.

— Stephen Dobyns

“Isn't that why you want to shoot yourself? To make a protest against change?”

— Stephen Dobyns

“If he could not find beauty, nothing else would be worth finding.”

— Stephen Dobyns

He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain…

— Stephen Dobyns

My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see…

— Stephen Dobyns

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend of stock…

— Stephen Dobyns

“A work of art gives testimony to what it is to be a human being. It bears witness, it extracts meaning. A work of…

— Stephen Dobyns

“It was not that she felt any allegiance to the truth. God knows she had cheated on too many men for the truth to…

— Stephen Dobyns

I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the French court…

— Stephen Dobyns

“Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.. in such a way do the days pass.. I see all…

— Stephen Dobyns

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

— Stephen Dobyns