Sarah Quotes

I write poems to figure things out

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words are the way they are. It's just the logic of the poem to me.

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.

I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.

I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.

Your hair is an act of God.

I am the beast at the end of the rope.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

Silent mantra practice helps me respond rather than react.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

This new world was already turning her into a cabbagehead, and she'd only been a part of it for an evening

Do you think me horselike, my lord?" Realizing the threat to his personage, Blackmoor wiped the smile from his face and replied, "Not at all. I said I think you charming." "A fine start.

Marriage, my dear, is not suicide.

So, are you... intrigued ... by Stanhope?" "Intrigued by him?" "Indeed. Do you find him ..." he paused. "Intriguing?" she teased. He sent her an exasperated look.

I'm no longer willing to let myself down.

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

I really love beautiful, well-made clothes. I don't shop [a lot], so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret.

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

Sometimes, love was not enough.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.