Heather McHugh famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took....
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I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.
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I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.
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Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.
-- Heather McHugh -
Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.
-- Heather McHugh
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth
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As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
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My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
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I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.
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I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
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