poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception. Patricia Hampl More Quotes by Patricia Hampl More Quotes From Patricia Hampl Here, in memory, we live and die. Patricia Hampl dies memories Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again. Patricia Hampl crazy play hands These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise. Patricia Hampl grief views profound Pondering was the highest vocation... Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place, but in the heart, where the real mystery of intelligence - intuition - rather than thought lay catlike and feminine, ready to pounce. Patricia Hampl real heart thinking It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see. Patricia Hampl thrilling risk mean Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines. Patricia Hampl mirrors writing hands It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves. Patricia Hampl slavery hard ties The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another. Patricia Hampl mystery secret world The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool. Patricia Hampl tools real self Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story. Patricia Hampl stories wish mind The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. Patricia Hampl future real past Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency. Patricia Hampl envy passion might In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception? Patricia Hampl writing integrity mean A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort. Patricia Hampl crush historical father I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them. Patricia Hampl politeness enough people Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied. Patricia Hampl pain secret mean If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport. Patricia Hampl reading sports book Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. Patricia Hampl phenomenon memories past In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates. Patricia Hampl artist memories Refuse to write your life and you have no life. Patricia Hampl refuse writing
