Ars Poetica Quotes

#1. I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.

Anna Journey

#2. Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.

Donald Hall

#3. Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#4. Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

Alan Dundes

#5. Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

Andrea Dworkin

#6. Nebraskans know the true meaning of life ... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

Jason Peter

#7. Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

Jack Bowman

#8. It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.

John Wyndham

#9. For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.

Kathy Acker

#10. There is no such thing as a black middle class.

H. Rap Brown

#11. There's a moment when I know that I should scream. But screaming would be hard. And blackness would be easy. Black picks me.

E.K. Johnston

#12. Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications?

Donald A. Norman

#13. Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.

Richard A. Clarke

#14. I was reminded of how years before, he had drifted away from one of our afternoon strolls and got surrounded by the tide - Corrigan, isolated on a sandbar, tangled in light, voices from the shores drifting over him, calling his name.

Colum McCann

#15. I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

Jessica Lange

#16. Now What?" Kerensky said. "We wait," Dahl said. "For how long?" Kerensky said, " As long as dramatically appropriate," Dahl said.

John Scalzi

#17. I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.

Mia Wasikowska