Deny Quote by Stephen Dunn Download Open image “I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.” — Stephen Dunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deny Mouths Whispering
I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss. — John Green Copy Share Image
She was tall and tight and she kissed just right but I'll never do that again. — Justin Moore Copy Share Image
She kissed me like she meant forever, we were too damn young to know any better. — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I growled before I could stop… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Tell me not to kiss you,” I begged. “Tell me not to do it.” She” — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it love because precision didn’t matter anymore.” — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as I think all of these poems are. It seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no more than a shadow or an echo behind some poem. Other times it will be more manifest. I try to write myself into articulations of half-felt, half-known feelings, without program. I'm always working toward getting my… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11,… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C… The often… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“God knows nothing we don't know. We gave him every word he ever said.” — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“That time I thought I was in love and calmly said so was not much different from the time I was truly in love and slept poorly and spoke out loud to the wall and discovered the hidden genius of my hands And the times I felt less in love, less than someone, were, to be honest, not so different… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
“I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you. A little girl with your hair and eyes would've been the delight of my life. But it is you that I want primarily, not mythical children. I can survive the loss of something I've never had.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share
Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet… — Nam June Paik Copy Share Image
Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it… — Shawn Phillips Copy Share Image
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image
Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
