Crush Poetry Quotes

#1. First, I thought, almost despairing,
This must crush my spirit now;
Yet I bore it, and am bearing-
Only do not ask me how.

Heinrich Heine

#2. Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive.

Louise Gluck

#3. Siken occasionally locates a poem in loss as enacted, not implicit, event. These are among his most beautiful poems, their capitulations heartbreaking in the context of prolonged animal struggle against acknowledgement.

Louise Gluck

#4. Holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things

Brandon Scott Gorrell

#5. Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

Robert Ringer

#6. We cannot accept love from another human being when we do not love ourselves, much less accept that God could possibly love us.

Brennan Manning

#7. There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops.

John Boswell

#8. Great praxis demands great piety.

Sallie McFague

#9. We live in a period of great polarities: in art, in public policy, in morality. In poetry, art seems, at one extreme, rhymed good manners, and at the other, chaos.

Louise Gluck

#10. They're promise rings," he whispered. Picking up the woman's, he lifted my right hand. Sliding it on my finger, he softly said, "You wear one," he slipped the man's on the ring finger of his right hand, "and I wear one.

S.C. Stephens

#11. This is a country that can't even make toasters," he said. "And while they can make missiles, they can't feed their population.

David E. Hoffman

#12. Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

Richard Siken