David St. John famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work.
-- David St. John

#Depression #Moving #Writing
It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home.
-- David St. John

#Memories #Home #Order
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.
-- David St. John

#Prayer #Ambition #Clothes
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.
-- David St. John

#Powerful #Moving #Reflection

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory
The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.
It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

David St. John famous quotes

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