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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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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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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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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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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I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something.
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Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed').
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A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
