Judy Grahn Quotes

#1. As I grew up I developed some literary pretensions myself, and studied and wrote meticulous poetry informed by poets as diverse as T. S. Eliot, Rimbaud, and Judy Grahn.

Jo Weldon

#2. It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

Witold Gombrowicz

#3. Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women ...

Judy Grahn

#4. We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

Judy Grahn

#5. He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

Judy Grahn

#6. I like Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory because some children deserve to be taken to a chocolate factory and tortured. I like Dawn of the dead because you don't normally get to kill all of the zombies hanging out at the mall.

Doug Benson

#7. The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

Judy Grahn

#8. A poem begins as a lump in the throat? Gamache asked Ruth. The elderly woman held his eyes

Louise Penny

#9. Was I shy? No. Not shy. Just, usually blissfully indifferent. I liked it that way. It was safer.

Samantha Young

#10. What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

Judy Grahn

#11. Slow down to speed up. Anonymous

Melissa G. Wilson

#12. Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

Judy Grahn

#13. Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

Charlie Haas

#14. Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

Judy Grahn

#15. Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

Judy Grahn

#16. From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

Judy Grahn

#17. It is taking one's conjectures rather seriously to roast someone alive for them.

Michel De Montaigne

#18. The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

Judy Grahn

#19. If you are going to go through hell, keep going

Winston Churchill

#20. When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#21. Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?

Dana Rohrabacher

#22. The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#23. It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself for difficult times; while fortune is bestowing favors on it is then is the time for it to be strengthened against her rebuffs.

Seneca.

#24. Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

Judy Grahn

#25. We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

Judy Grahn

#26. You can go to the dark side of the moon and back and see nothing more wonderful and strange than the way men and women manage to get together.

John Updike

#27. Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

#28. Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

Tucker Max

#29. The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

Judy Grahn

#30. Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.

Judy Grahn