Surrealist Poetry Quotes

#1. I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Kenneth Koch

#2. We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

Michael Richardson

#3. Jesus's message to his contemporaries, and the church's message about Jesus, never fit what people expect. Often enough, they don't fit what the church itself expects.

N. T. Wright

#4. The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'

Wayne Dyer

#5. I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

Diane Cilento

#6. Bentley and Lamborghini have been achieving record sales for years. This doesn't support the notion that these models are suddenly social pariahs. There will always be a place for these kinds of cars.

Martin Winterkorn

#7. I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

Lawrence Welk

#8. You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Matthew McConaughey

#9. Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.

Douglas Adams

#10. No one likes a clown who reminds them of why they hate ice-cream-truck music.

Sloane Crosley

#11. Bad answers for employment questions:
Employer: I see here that you worked for the state for three years. Why did you leave that job?
My parole was granted

Neil Leckman

#12. I am quite loud and bolshie.

Adele

#13. Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.

Marianne Williamson