Joan Silber quotes

Joan Silber quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.”
-- Joan Silber

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“Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.”
“Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.”
“If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.”

Source : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006
“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”
“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
“There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.”
“You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.”
“One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.”
“When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.”

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