Diack Trophy Quotes

#1. A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

Joshua Cohen

#2. I can choose to be unstable.

Elizabeth Swados

#3. I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

David Brooks

#4. To fall in love with him even though I was right here?"
"You're not really my type, Abe," I say.
"I'm too handsome?" He grins.
"Too evil.

Suzanne Young

#5. Her advice is much like pepper, I think ... excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Lou Holtz

#7. In the case of smokers, the abuse leads to death, sicknesses, cancer, amputation, loss of all kinds.

Sunday Adelaja

#8. God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Florence Nightingale

#9. I just don't want you to feel that way, because I love you. I'm in love with you. Forever and ever, and all the corny things I can attach to that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

Sam Hunt