George Murray Quotes
The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
George Murray
Quotes to Explore
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
Patricia Riggen
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
Abbe Pierre
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
Nancy Horan
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
Tariq Ali
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I grew up wearing trousers and climbing trees.
Vicky Krieps
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God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.
Sandra Cisneros
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
Gaston Bachelard
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Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.
Ian Christe
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The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
George Murray