Stephen Dobyns Quotes
A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
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The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.
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Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.
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A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
