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“You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.”
Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.49, Vanderbilt University Press
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“I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.”
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“Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?”
Source : Jean-Luc Nancy (2009). “Listening”, p.10, Fordham University Press
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“If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.”
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“I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.”
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“Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.”
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“We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com
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“One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn't necessarily reveal what it's doing with rhythm and sound and patterning.”
Source : "5×5: Brian Evenson". Interview with Hayden Bennett, believermag.com. January 15, 2015. 
