Sarah Kay Quotes

Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.

Sarah Kay

Quotes to Explore

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

Ted Turner
- Up
- Good
- Know
I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.

Gary Bettman
- Game
- Team
- Sometimes
I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

Garth Risk Hallberg
- Trying
- Job
- Focus
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

Hannibal Buress
- Writing
- Trying
- You
Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

Washed Out
- Music
- Different
- Trying
I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

Ira Sachs
- Together
- Gay
- Three