Larry Levis Quotes

#1. Style, after all, is a kind of humor,
Something truly beneath contempt...

Larry Levis

#2. In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

Evan Sayet

#3. We leave as four.

Zack Scott

#4. Then think of fire, It's laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, The flames reaching through the second story of a house almost as if to -mistakenly- rescue someone who left you years ago. It is so American, fire. So like us. It's desolation. And it's eventual, brief triumph.

Larry Levis

#5. I lead by example. But if I get pissed enough, I'll say something. It usually isn't rah-rah; it's more complaining.

Brian Urlacher

#6. This story has no point but stillness itself...

Larry Levis

#7. The moment of writing is not an escape ... it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it.

Larry Levis

#8. I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

Aaron Levie

#9. It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

Tim Winton

#10. A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

Solomon Short