Babette Deutsch Quotes

#1. Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Babette Deutsch

#2. Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

Babette Deutsch

#3. The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

Babette Deutsch

#4. remember to keep working from the inside out and keep getting back on track when we blow it.

Stephen R. Covey

#5. History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it.

Babette Deutsch

#6. A marriage is about how clever you deal with it, not about pushing it away when hurricanes come crashing down. You've to be strong and find a way to not let the world tear your marriage apart.

Diyar Harraz

#7. The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

Babette Deutsch

#8. I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way.

Erik Hassle

#9. How to sustain the miracle
Of being, that like a muted bell,
Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
Quivers, intense and still?

Babette Deutsch

#10. I wanted to think this was just my lizard brain telling me to copulate with a male who was a genetic powerhouse.

Staci Hart

#11. There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

Babette Deutsch

#12. If the things behind you are tripping you, you're moving in the wrong direction.

Steve Maraboli

#13. It can be nice and still be a prison." "I

Kim Stanley Robinson

#14. The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

Babette Deutsch

#16. When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

Micky Dolenz