Quotes – Page 56 – BIG OTHER

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Pamela Ryder’s Paradise Field

“Things—small things—are riding down the gutter with the rain.” —Paradise Field, Pamela Ryder The poetic weight of a…

Happy 200th birthday, Walt Whitman! Here are some quotes from his writing. “This is what you shall do: Love…

Happy birthday, Agnès Varda! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “I was free always.” “Memory is like sand in…

Happy birthday, John Barth! 89, today! Here are some quotes from the author. “Self-knowledge is always bad news.” “[F]iction…

Happy birthday, Miles Davis! Here are some quotes from the musician. “I’ll play it and tell you what it…

Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”…

Happy birthday, Raymond Carver! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews. “At the risk of appearing foolish,…

Happy birthday, Bob Dylan! 78, today! Lucky to have seen this trickster and consummate artist perform live many times…

Happy birthday, Lucie Brock-Broido! Here are some quotes from the poet. “I, abstract, adoring, distant / And unsalvageable.” “Wonderment…

“The Big One was obviously one of those epoxy-and-metal eggs produced by itself—the Platonic Idea of a pebble turned inside…