David Budbill quotes

“Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.”
-- David Budbill

Source : David Budbill (2012). “Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse”, p.43, Copper Canyon Press

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“I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?”
-- David Budbill

Source : David Budbill (2012). “Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse”, p.56, Copper Canyon Press

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“What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.”
-- David Budbill

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“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.”

Source : "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”

“I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.”

“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”

“We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.”

“Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.”

“For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.”

Source : Turkish Press Review, June 1, 1999.

“Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.”

“Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.”