Modernist Poets Quotes

#1. What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

Francine Prose

#2. You have to be telling people essentially "I love you," or you have no basis for your art.

Etheridge Knight

#3. The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. O how he loves you, darling boy. Oh how, like always, he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him, chest to chest or chest to back, the covers drawn around you in an act of faith against the night.

Richard Siken

#5. In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

James Payn

#6. The Spirit reveals, unfolds, takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us, and prepares us to be more than a match for Satanic forces.

Smith Wigglesworth

#7. This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.

John F. Carlson

#8. Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything
including the Christian plan of salvation.

Billy Graham

#9. I have 10 brothers and sisters.

Norbert Leo Butz

#10. If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

Noel Coward

#11. You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.

William Carlos Williams

#12. Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

Peter O'Toole

#13. To any kind of sex, if you were honest. I've got a pole, you've got a hole, that's what it all came down to.

Victor J. Banis