Anne Hebert Quotes

Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.

Anne Hebert

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• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Child

• I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Man
  • Star

• My main thing is music; it's what I do.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Thing
  • Main Thing

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • Water
  • First
  • Existence

• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Death
  • Hear

• All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • True
  • Memory

• The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Gay
  • Red
  • Living

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Moment

• Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Like
  • Look
  • Oil

• The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Good
  • Society
  • Economy

• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Company
  • Will
  • Useful

• Read books. They are good for us.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Good
  • Books
  • U.S.

• Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

  

  Victor Borge
  • People
  • Christmas
  • Year

• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Simplicity

• Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Happy

• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• shadows of night and reflections of lightshiver and quiver and churn,for the searching of soul that never can hurtis the fire that never can burn.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Fire

• I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • War
  • Poetry

• Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.

  

  Anne Hebert
  • Poetry
  • Lived
  • Explained