Von Hagen Quotes

#1. A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides where the lines should end. This dreary-sounding definition, unpoetic to a fault, may well turn out to be the best we can do.

Terry Eagleton

#2. Now, but these three," cried Jurgen, "are the glory of Philistia: and of all that Philistia has produced, it is these three alone, whom living ye made least of, that today are honored wherever art is honored, and where nobody bothers one way or the other about Philistia.

James Branch Cabell

#3. When you write songs you're commenting on love, you're commenting on sex, relationships, whatever it is that you decide to write about it. And I've wanted to write about politics or spiritual ideas for years.

Joan Jett

#4. Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.

Raekwon

#5. Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.

Nirmala Srivastava

#6. Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

Ozzy Osbourne

#7. Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

Mason Cooley

#8. Protestors can have a big impact, but in the end it's governments that reshape the world.

Ken Follett

#9. If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.

Anita Shreve

#10. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Peace Pilgrim

#11. The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker