Alan G. Hevesi Quotes

Atlantis will rise again.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

We all want what`s been suddenly disallowed.

I`m trying to climb up both walls at once.

You can do anything, literally, right? That`s one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

I`m one of the cliches that has grown up.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

I couldn`t write a canto if I sat down and deliberately tried. My interest is not in cantos. It`s in another condition of a song.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

You can read everybody. It`s not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it`s false.

I`m sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

This country has been unconscious, and it`s got to awake. That`s my belief.

We`re all moving, moving, moving. Isn`t it nice?

I was playing catch with the European audience.

I hope you`re representing the devil`s advocate.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

You don`t help people in your poems. I`ve been trying to help people all my life - that`s my trouble.

I don`t live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.