Top 33 May Swenson Quotes
#1. Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan).
Matthea Harvey
#2. The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.
May Swenson
#3. The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
Mona Simpson
#4. Love came bearing love
A chalice of light
We bathed in love and drank it
Then our flesh
Seemed like the leaves
Enameled bright forever.
May Swenson
#5. It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.
Jim Rohn
#6. In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.
Max Tegmark
#7. Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.
Peter Bogdanovich
#8. Explicitly Christian themes are regularly excluded from news articles.
Gary DeMar
#10. Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
James M. Barrie
#11. I just have to be confident and actually try to do less, not try to do more.
Andre Ethier
#12. Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.
Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?
Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.
Andy Warhol
#13. Hannah! You've simply got to stop finding bodies. I swear you attract them like a magnet. If you're not careful, everyone's going to get the wrong impression of you." - Delores Swenson
Joanne Fluke
#14. It is on December nights, with the thermometer at zero, that we most think of the sun.
Victor Hugo
#15. Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen
May Swenson
#16. Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one.
Sandy Swenson
#17. Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.
May Swenson
#18. How different our prayer life would be if we submitted our will to God's. Imagine if we asked only for things to benefit His kingdom.
Amber Albee Swenson
#19. Margin," Swenson says, "is the space between our load and our limits.
Kevin DeYoung
#20. I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.
Alice McDermott
#21. We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.
Vangelis
#22. if you already have genes predisposed to an autoimmune disease, and you eat grains and legumes, you're putting your hand on a trigger, and it's only a matter of time before you pull it and allow the damaged genes to rule.
Nicole Swenson
#23. People in the US think they are "free" because they always hear that they are, even if all evidence shows it is no longer true.
Cass Swenson
#24. Maybe I just didn't want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it'd be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?"
"Poets," Eve decided. "You have to think they must."
"Okay, other than poets.
J.D. Robb
#25. Love is ... the bite into bread again.
May Swenson
#26. The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.
May Swenson
#27. [Pages left blank intentionally]
Don't ask why. Just accept it.
Cass Swenson
#28. There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.
Joseph J. Lhota
#29. (I really believe that a building is a unit, not a city, so that city planning should not control all buildings. Because a house can be the product of one man, but a city cannot. And nothing collective can have the unity and integrity of a "unit.")
Ayn Rand
#30. That does not make me feel better."
He chuckled. "It doesn't?"
"No. I feel like the wallflower being patronised by the cool guy."
"You're not a wallflower."
"Says the cool guy.
Amy Andrews
#31. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
Orson Scott Card
#33. Marina Singh: "You went to Radcliffe."
Annick Swenson: "I didn't love it.
Ann Patchett
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