Southern Poets Quotes

#1. Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#2. Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Robert Morgan

#3. Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me.

Anna N.

#4. Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats ... nothing's changed really.

Olly Murs

#5. I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.

Linda Cardellini

#6. You see, I do not want a body without a heart.

Cassandra Clare

#7. and stars sang like crickets in the dropping dusk and were.

Agnes McDonald

#8. In your love, I dive,
to find the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#9. I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

Nicole Ari Parker

#10. If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

John Crowley

#12. Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

Robert Morgan

#13. Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It's Spartan to the core.

Neil Hayes

#14. They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

Nathaniel Lee

#15. For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

Laura Hillenbrand

#16. Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")

Neil Gaiman