"A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way."

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Source : Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

Michael Longley

#Way Quotes #Grows Quotes #Response Quotes

“I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.”
“The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. Thereâ€™s no such thing as intelligent vanity. Itâ€™s an instinct. And youâ€™ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.”
“All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.”
“I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.”
“The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.”
“We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.”
“River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy, Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home”

Source : Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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