Arnold Adoff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.
-- Arnold Adoff

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I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.
-- Arnold Adoff

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Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
-- Arnold Adoff

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A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.
-- Arnold Adoff

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Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

Arnold Adoff famous quotes

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