August Kleinzahler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've always felt that there's a very thin membrane between madness and alcoholism, and/or destitution and being an OK American guy in a comfortable heated apartment with meatballs and a decent Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge.
-- August Kleinzahler

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There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.
-- August Kleinzahler

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The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if itâ€™s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesnâ€™t exist.
-- August Kleinzahler

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Iâ€™ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, Iâ€™m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded. I feel like thatâ€™s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, itâ€™s over. You feel like you canâ€™t be stopped. Staying humble is the only way you can be great.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.
There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there...

August Kleinzahler famous quotes

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