Top 8 David Joseph Cribbin Quotes

#1. Freedom of speech is not only the right to say as you please, it is also the right to have what you say contested, and where it does not accord with reason - refuted, or with sense - ridiculed.

David Joseph Cribbin

#2. I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.

David Joseph Cribbin

#3. Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.

David Joseph Cribbin

#4. A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.

David Joseph Cribbin

#5. Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

David Joseph Cribbin

#6. Poetry is a beacon slicer.

David Joseph Cribbin

#7. Sincerity is the defence of every misanthrope.

David Joseph Cribbin

#8. I was born with my eyes turned inward.

David Joseph Cribbin

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