Agustina De Aragon Quotes

#1. Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened,

Vera Pavlova

#2. Can you repeat that pickup line for me?"
I heard one of the vamps ask.
"I want to write it down. Something about the usual?

Karen Chance

#3. People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

Alison Bechdel

#4. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistical and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them , for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#6. There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

Dana Spiotta

#7. Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#8. A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.

Yves Saint-Laurent