21 Quotes by David Lehman

I shall head to my desk and writeThe sonnet that praises the antique penUsed to write out prophecies of todayWith you on my arm, unafraid.

Not every madman is an agent of the divine,Not all who pass are allowed to come through.

How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Like everything at the end of the session, there's going to be a scramble. The Speaker has said community college is on life support, but it's not dead.

I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.