Cornelius Eady Quotes

#1. Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

Junot Diaz

#2. Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.

Miriam

#3. Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

Sai Baba

#4. It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Brenda Ueland

#5. It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

Cornelius Eady

#6. Jericho's walls fell flat: Rahab's house was on the wall, and yet it stood unmoved; my nature is built into the wall of humanity, and yet when destruction smites the race, I shall be secure. My soul, tie the scarlet thread in the window afresh, and rest in peace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

Peter Blair Henry

#8. Wisdom did not belong to mortals, and those whom others called wise were only those who, through grim experience, had touched the very edges of unwelcome truths. For the wise, even joy was tinged with sorrow.

Steven Erikson

#9. When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

Cornelius Eady

#10. Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.

Cornelius Eady

#11. Cynicism is a form of obedience.

Cornelius Eady

#12. I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.

Cornelius Eady

#13. Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

Betty Jane Wylie

#14. Art is not supposed to repeat what you already know. It is supposed to ask questions.

Sarah Thornton

#15. Ah the mad hearts of all of us.

Jack Kerouac

#16. A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

Thomas Sowell

#17. A king should know his people. That's why I sneak out,' he murmurs. 'I do it in the capital too, and at the war front. I like to see how things really are in the kingdom,instead of being told by advisers and diplomats. That's what a good king would do.

Victoria Aveyard

#18. I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Ken Robinson

#19. Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.

Cornelius Eady

#20. What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.

Cornelius Eady

#21. It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

James Joyce

#22. For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me.

Cornelius Eady

#23. Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.

Idina Menzel

#24. There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Isaac Asimov