Joan Silber famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

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