Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
Some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.
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Charles Bukowski
My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments–we hear a word that sticks in our mind–or maybe we have a small...
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Douglas Coupland
Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of...
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Jodi Picoult
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", " What does?"" This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.
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JeanPaul Sartre
Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.
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Steve Maraboli
More Quotes By Marilyn Hacker
From Orient PointThe art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes you promises, don't trust herunless they're in the here and now, and just herwilling largesse free-handed to a friend. The art of living isn't...
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
