Wendy > Wendy's Quotes

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“What would it be like
to live in a library
of melted books.

With sentences streaming over the floor
and all the punctuation
settled to the bottom as a residue.

It would be confusing.
Unforgivable.
A great adventure.”
― Anne Carson

“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.”
― Mary Karr

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.
It is beautiful that they have to disappear.
It's like the time you said I love you madly.
That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.”
― Frederick Seidel

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Too much is almost enough”
― Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga: Poems

“Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child

hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands....”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch!”
― Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.”
― Anne Carson