Michael Donaghy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?
-- Michael Donaghy

#Hurt #Asking #Breakfast
Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.
-- Michael Donaghy

#Dog #Vivisection
I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.
-- Michael Donaghy

#Dog #Phds #Vivisection
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.
-- Michael Donaghy

#Eye #Vision #Frost

When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.
Itâ€™s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'
A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
Your favorite kind of cake can't be birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.

Michael Donaghy famous quotes

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