Randall Mann famous quotes

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.
-- Randall Mann

#Rhyme #Turns #Wanted

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.
-- Randall Mann

#Thinking #Want #Way

Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.
-- Randall Mann

#Art #Sick #Everyday

I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun working the vernacular of work into poems. I'm also writing some poems about family. And I don't know, just writing. Taking breaks. Writing some more.
-- Randall Mann

#Fun #Writing #Sound

I am probably going to pay for this at some point, but I think pretty much everyone I come into contact with is fair game. So I use real names sometimes if the poem says it happened like that. It feels right if I use the real person I reference. Of course the poem is all lies, even when it's true, so I guess I can sleep at night.
-- Randall Mann

#Real #Lying #Sleep

I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.
-- Randall Mann

#Men #Noise #Uniforms

I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.
-- Randall Mann

#Sadness #Cutting #Thinking

There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

The wheel turns and turns and turns: it never stops and stands still.

I wanted to be part of something bigger

I wanted to look different because I felt different

I've always wanted to do a family movie.