Alice Fulton Quotes

• Anguish is the universal language.

  Alice Fulton

  Empathy, Language, Anguish

  Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

  Alice Fulton

  Beginners, Intimacy, Imitation

  Alice Fulton, “About Face”

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• Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

  Alice Fulton

  Poetry, Stories, Literature

  Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”

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• Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what
  looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

  Alice Fulton

  Moving, Looks, Cascade

  Alice Fulton (1990). “Powers of Congress: Poems”, p.2, Sarabande Books

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• While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

  Alice Fulton

  Alive, Amazement, Minors

  Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".

  Alice Fulton

  Reading, Mean, Views

  Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”

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• Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

  Alice Fulton

  Emotion, Devices

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• Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

  Alice Fulton

  Silence, Steadfast, Silence Is

  Alice Fulton (2010). “The Nightingales of Troy”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.

  Alice Fulton

  Dark

  Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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