Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.
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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
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Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.
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As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.
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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
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Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."
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There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.
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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
