Eileen Clemens Granfors Quotes

Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying ...
Spring Flight ~ Eileen Granfors

Heavy as such things are
After the wordslide, the writing begins."
From "Word Quake ~ Eileen Granfors

Lord, make me now
As happy as the field.
With flowers enriched ... ~ Eileen A. Soper

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. ~ Eileen Myles

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question. ~ Eileen Claussen

I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie. ~ Eileen Myles

Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen. ~ Eileen Caddy

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy. ~ Eileen Caddy

I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. ~ Eileen Myles

To be fair, it's not just cycling - the term "sporty" isn't used to describe me. I don't run unless something is chasing me, and I have some kind of visual-spatial ball deficiency. ~ Eileen Cook

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere. ~ Eileen Claussen

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? ~ Eileen Atkins

I could have gone my entire life without the image of my mom and Dick engaged in a sexual role-playing game. Especially in my clothes. ~ Eileen Cook

If you're making love to a man of God, then God must endorse your lovemaking. ~ Eileen Pollack

Jumped and spun. Ten paces back along the path stood a luminous woman dressed in ~ Eileen Wilks

I was generally in favor of segregation of the dead and the living. ~ Eileen Cook

Repression is sometimes a precious gift our minds offer us when faced with trauma. ~ Andrea Clemens

We reached to shake hands, and as soon as we touched, it felt like a current ran between the two of us. My heart sped up. Our eyes met. Nathaniel cleared his throat, and I realized he was trying to take his hand back and I was holding on to it with a death grip. I dropped his hand like it was a burning log. Oh God, I was turning into a stepbrother groper. He was nice to me, and the next thing he knew, I was hanging off him like a parasite. He was most likely grateful I hadn't thrown myself at his face for a tongue kiss. ~ Eileen Cook

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time. ~ Eileen Collins

If there is something I will always carry in my heart it is this earnest unwillingness to be part of the bunch, ~ Eileen Myles

Besides, I thought it was kind of cool that you noticed I have good dexterity." he waved his fingers in front of my face. "I like the idea of you thinking about what my hands can do." He winked before turning to leave.
I flushed even redder. "I wasn't thinking about your hands," I called after him.
"Sure you weren't."
"I wasn't. I was trying to be nice."
Drew turned around to face me, leaning against the doorjamb. "Admit it. you're thinking about it now." He saluted and left.
I kicked the cart Darn it. Now I was thinking about it. ~ Eileen Cook

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. ~ Eileen Myles

If boys were always trying to get in girls' pants, what did they want? What could the girls give them? Pee it seemed to me was an appropriate gift. ~ Eileen Myles

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. ~ Eileen Caddy

Already I know it will hurt this is the hurt country ~ Eileen Myles

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.' ~ Eileen Collins

I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life. ~ Eileen Myles

I didn't stand up to my jailers because I realized how quickly I would have been overpowered. ~ Eileen Pollack

The mother was holding a baby, had a stroller with what looked like twin girls around three, and had a five-year-old boy who was running around the shelves with a finger shoved up his nose. I considered warning him that if he fell, he would poke his brain out, but it struck me that losing intelligence was not something he was worried about. ~ Eileen Cook

Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally from my INESTIMABLE FOLIO OF CANONICAL MASTERPIECES (sorry, I just do that sometimes), and get you all together. It's the least I could do.

I mean, seriously. Those soliloquies in Moby-Dick? Sooo Hamlet and/or Othello, with maybe a little Shylock thrown in. Everyone from Pip in Great Expectations to freakin' Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre mentions my plays, sometimes completely mangling my words in nineteenth-century middle-American dialect for humorous effect (thank you, Sir Clemens). Many people (cough Virginia Woolf cough) just quote me over and over again without attribution. I hear James Joyce even devoted a chapter of his giant novel to something called the "Hamlet theory," though do you have some sort of newfangled English? It looks like gobbledygook to me. The only people who don't seek me out are like Chaucer and Dante and those ancient Greeks. For whatever reason.

And then there are the titles. The Sound and the Fury? Mine. Infinite Jest? Mine. Proust, Nabokov, Steinbeck, and Agatha Christie all have titles that are me-inspired. Brave New World? Not just the title, but half the plot has to do with my work. Even Edgar Allan Poe named a character after my Tempest's Prospero (though, not surprisingly, things didn't turn out well for him!). I'm like the star to every wandering bark, the arrow of every compass, the buzzard to every haw ~ Sarah Schmelling

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. ~ Eileen Favorite

Different timing. Same blessing. ~ S.N. Clemens

grace is neither bright nor dark. it merely is. it is the heart of the wielder that is either bright or dark. ~ James Clemens

The room was the poem, the day I was in. Oh Christ. What writes my poem is the second ring, inner or outer. Poetry is just the performance of it. These little things, whether I write them or not. That's the score. The thing of great value is you. Where you are, glowing and fading, while you live. ~ Eileen Myles

I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects. ~ Eileen Myles

There's only so much a woman can endure in a single day without a bracing bout of giggles. ~ Kelly Eileen Hake

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill. ~ Eileen Favorite

It's not a competition, it's a doorway. ~ Mary Oliver

Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been. ~ S.W. Clemens

That's the thing with some people. They see us not just for who we are, but for who we could be. They hold us to a higher standard. They make us better because they believe we can be better, and that makes us believe it too. ~ Eileen Cook

Great changes are about to take place in the whole universe. It will not be a comfortable time. It is important that each one has no fear, no concern, knowing that this great upheaval is necessary before the next step can be taken. ~ Eileen Caddy

Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path. ~ Eileen Caddy

Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared. ~ Eileen Simpson

The future projects light, the past only clouds ~ Eileen Gray

A man proposes to demonstrate to his woman how much he values her. ~ Kelly Eileen Hake

Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month. ~ Andrew Bacevich

Everyone who was in the Delacroix house on Christmas morning got a stocking. That was one of the rules. ~ Eileen Wilks

I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that. ~ Eileen Davidson