Grace Cavalieri famous quotes

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.
-- Grace Cavalieri

#Children #Brain #Way

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.
-- Grace Cavalieri

#Writing #World #Safe

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.
-- Grace Cavalieri

#Creativity #Cutting #Rivers

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.
-- Grace Cavalieri

#Listening #Energy #Poet

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.
-- Grace Cavalieri

#Book #Writing #Character

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.
-- Grace Cavalieri

#Doe #Sacred #Hearing

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.
-- Grace Cavalieri

#Hippie #Movement #Theater

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.