Stephen Dobyns Quotes
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
Quotes to Explore
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
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Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
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It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.
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Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
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No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
