Alice Fulton Quotes

#1. While you're alive there's no time for minor amazements.

Alice Fulton

#2. Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'

Kenneth Cranham

#3. Anguish is the universal language

Alice Fulton

#4. I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".

Alice Fulton

#5. Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what
looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

Alice Fulton

#6. Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

Alice Fulton

#7. What then remains, but well our power to use,
And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose?
And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail,
When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

Alexander Pope

#8. Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

Alice Fulton

#9. A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. It's the same for a writer ...

C.J. Heck

#10. She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

Bruce Springsteen

#11. It's just me throwing myself at you,
romance as usual, us times us,
not lust but moxibustion,
a substance burning close
to the body as possible
without risk of immolation.

Alice Fulton

#12. At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

Alice Fulton

#13. Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Alice Fulton

#14. What's it like being with her? Is it true what they say about older chicks?"
"She's not that much older."
"Uh, okay. So anyway, how is it?"
"It's incredible."
"What's she do"
"She does everything, Ben.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#15. Even when I'm in the dark I'm in the dark with you.

Alice Fulton

#16. It's the rare
God who needs less stroking that a rock
Star or poetician ...

Alice Fulton

#17. Because life's too short to blush,
I keep my blood tucked in.

Alice Fulton

#18. This was what she had signed up for - a good man and minimal pleasure.

Red Phoenix