Terrance Hayes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book.
-- Terrance Hayes

#Smart #Book #Achievement
Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.
-- Terrance Hayes

#Dog #Rain #Glasses
Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of capacious soul and formal inventiveness: the compassion and artfulness necessary to capture the tragedies and Tragedy of Katrina. Smith is herself a storm of beautiful, frightening talent. Her words will wash you or wash you away. I consider this new book a major literary event.
-- Terrance Hayes

#Beautiful #Book #Compassion
Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.
-- Terrance Hayes

#White #Church #Looks
I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.
-- Terrance Hayes

#Thinking #Expectations #People
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and others is new again. The mythic becomes particular; the particular becomes mythic in these fascinating poems of personalities and personas. Riveraâ€™s work is rich in empathy and invention. Heathen is a book of psalms for the present day.
-- Terrance Hayes

#Flower #Book #Biblical

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

Terrance Hayes famous quotes

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