Quotes About James Wright

#1. Mmm." The vibration in his chest pressed against her back shot sparks of hot lust through her. "I love you this way." He guided his erection to nudge her entrance. "I love you every way."
Katya smiled and pushed back against him. "I love you, too.

Bonnie Dee

#2. Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.

James Wright Foley

#3. The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

John Edensor Littlewood

#4. James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.

Ann Wright

#5. I'm not a great believer in self-help.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. Good evening charlie, yes I know you rise, two lean grey spiders drifting through your eyes.

James Wright

#7. Humility rests upon the shores of your sorrows and blossoms upon the mountain of your faith

Jeremy Aldana

#8. If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be

Kai Greene

#9. I close my eyes, and think of water.

James Wright

#10. Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

James Wright

#11. In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

James Wright

#12. I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

James Wright

#13. I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

Jon Crosby

#14. In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.

James Wright

#15. Look: I am nothing.
I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.

James Wright

#16. It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

James Wright

#17. The Jewel
There is this cave
In the air behind my body
That nobody is going to touch:
A cloister, a silence
Closing around a blossom of fire.
When I stand upright in the wind,
My bones turn to dark emeralds.

James Wright

#18. I would rather live my life than not live it.

James Wright

#19. Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Ovid

#20. Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.

James Wright

#21. I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.

James Wright

#22. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#23. They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.

James Wright

#24. Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.

James Wright

#25. Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet.

James Wright

#26. Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

James Wright

#27. And then, when noon comes,
Each stranger
Has no room left in the light
Except for only his hands.
Here are mine. They are kind of skinny. May I have your
lovely trees?

James Wright

#28. Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake
Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms.
All flawless hexagons may melt and break;
While you must feel the summer's rage of fire,
Beyond this frigid season's empty storms.
Banished to bloom, and bear the birds' desire.

James Wright

#29. Don't let anyone tell you that Apartheid has nothing to do with South Africa now. Those roots run deep and tangled and we'll be tripping over them for many generations to come.

Lauren Beukes

#30. Love is a cliff,
A clear, cold curve of stone, mottled by stars,
Smirched by the morning, carved by the dark sea
Till stars and dawn and waves can slash no more,
Till the rock's heart is found and shaped again.

James Wright

#31. We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected

James Wright

#32. The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who's who straight. So don't be surprised if they don't remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do.

James Purdy