Ina Coolbrith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.
-- Ina Coolbrith

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Where is the peace that should with thee abide O Earth?
-- Ina Coolbrith

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My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read â€” I like to buy.
I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Ina Coolbrith famous quotes

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