Allen Grossman Quotes

#1. To all of us comes that moment in life when we are literally tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to ourselves and our talents. What a pity if that moment finds us unprepared.

Winston S. Churchill

#2. Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

David Graeber

#3. The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

Allen Grossman

#4. I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the end, although I can't imagine what that something is.

Joseph Heller

#5. an idea is a combination of other ideas.

Scott Berkun

#6. There is a town in north Ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind
I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.

Neil Young

#7. Whenever I feel that people aren't smiling at me, I simply begin smiling and saying hello.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#8. Do not be content with an imaginary god.

Allen Grossman

#9. What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

Allen Grossman

#11. I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

Rick James

#12. If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

Allen Grossman

#13. I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives
philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.

Isaac Bashevis Singer