Alice Fulton quotes
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“Anguish is the universal language”
-- Alice FultonSource : Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.”
-- Alice FultonSource : Alice Fulton (1990). “Powers of Congress: Poems”, p.2, Sarabande Books
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“Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.”
-- Alice FultonSource : Alice Fulton (2010). “The Nightingales of Troy”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company
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“While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.”
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“Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.”
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“At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.”
-- Alice FultonSource : Alice Fulton, “About Face”
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“Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.”
-- Alice FultonSource : Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”
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“I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".”
-- Alice FultonSource : Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”
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“While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.”
-- Alice FultonSource : Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.”
-- Alice Fulton
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