Lucia Perillo quotes

“I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.”
-- Lucia Perillo

Source : Lucia Perillo (2016). “Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems”, p.108, Copper Canyon Press

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“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.”
-- Lucia Perillo

Source : Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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“My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read widely, in a variety of time periods and cultures, to identify which traits of poems are appealing and which aversive. And what can be stolen.”
-- Lucia Perillo

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“I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.”

“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”

“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”

“I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.”

“I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.”

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“I believe in tackling things youre afraid of.”

“I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.”

“I believe in nature instead of God.”

Source : "Is there a God?". Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2000.

“Can I believe in that God too?”