Rufus Wilmot Griswold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

  • And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

  • Speak the language of the person you want to become.

  • It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

  • Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

  • When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

  • It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.

  • Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

  • A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.

  • I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.