Eve Merriam famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
-- Eve Merriam

#Mother #Dream #Peace
Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.
-- Eve Merriam

#Wall #Scratches #Wailing
When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.
-- Eve Merriam

#Beautiful #Poetry #Terrible
It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.
-- Eve Merriam

#Stars #Home #Cat
...a good poem contains both meaning and music
-- Eve Merriam

#Writing
Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
-- Eve Merriam

#Running #Knives #Skins
Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.
-- Eve Merriam

#Morning #Writing #Paper
whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.
-- Eve Merriam

#Book #Reading #Way

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.
When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.
It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.
But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Eve Merriam famous quotes

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