Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

One of the problems with fame … is they try to pigeonhole you… like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Popular Topics
Job, Evidence, Value Of Life, Stories, Smile, Comfortable, Character, Alien, Guru, Loves, Peace Love, Pleasures Of Life, Looking For Love, Children, House, Relationships, Leadership, Education, Once Upon A Time, Movie Love, Kind, Funny, I Miss You, Thought, Disco, Talent, Lives, Kids, Kindly, I Like You, Like, Teacher, Humble, Football, Important, Gold, Feelings, Justice, Life Is Good, Ideas, Positive, Future, Dance, Poet, Angry, Night, Impossible, Adventure, Intelligent, Excellent
Mary Ruefle

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

Bird, Poet, Aspire, Birds
Same Author Quotes

I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive.

Adulthood, Childhood, Hate, Hated, Love Is

If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

Climbed, Errors, Ideas, Path, Trial And Error, Wrong

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.

Afraid, Destroys, Nature, Not Afraid, World

When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.

Book, Fall, Give, Giving, Mythology, Poems

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Attain, Failure, Happiness, Marred
Similar Quotes