What did Hortense Calisher mean by: I always say that one’s poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one’s friends. - Hortense Calisher Copy
+ if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Deaf, Ears, Technology, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Ideas, Success, Writing, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Mind, Shapes, Writing, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Most Powerful, Writing, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ perhaps there’s no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Meditation Practice, Prayer, Spurs, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Process, Youth, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Family, Intimacy, 0 - Hortense Calisher
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
What raises great poetry above all else–it is the entire person and also the entire world. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
