Zachary Schomburg Quotes

#1. America is good enough for us.

John Sergeant Wise

#2. You leave the opinion of those who say, "She's not who I would have picked," to decide that if Jesus chooses you, that's sufficient.

Suzanne Eller

#3. One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we'll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other's chest, and watch each other like stars we don't know are dead.

Zachary Schomburg

#4. Pre-order is the new order

Zachary Schomburg

#5. Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.

Zachary Schomburg

#6. Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Horace

#7. Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I'm interested in.

Zachary Schomburg

#8. Inside the woods is an abandoned hotel.
Trees grow in the lobby
and up through the rooms.
Limbs jut out through the windows.
It looks like outside
inside.
I climb the trees
through 1000 rooms.
I look for you
in each of them.
You're a long shiny line.

Zachary Schomburg

#9. How can I be a man if there is no role model?

Tupac Shakur

#10. One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.

Molly Antopol

#11. I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

#13. When he walks, he sounds like a tree still full of dead leaves holding on.

Zachary Schomburg