Introspectively Quotes

#1. If you're in a country and you want to learn about it, it's a good idea to go and found out what they have to say for themselves; you might want to write a good story about it, when they're not looking.

Marion Davies

#2. Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.

Monique Roffey

#3. Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem - no such thing - a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.

Ben Lerner

#4. I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Sylvia Plath

#5. In that way you recall, suddenly, sharply, in daylight, a trace of a dream of the previous night
but even as you recall it, it begins to fade.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. stomped the earth in a blind, anosmic rage. His

Sam Sykes

#7. And you poor creatures
who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

John Boorman

#8. My son is very trendy and with-it, and he was the one who showed me 'Gummo.'

Anita Pallenberg