Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Kathleen Rooney
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”
“Any day you walk down a street and find nothing new but nothing missing counts as a good day in a city you love.”
“People who command respect are never as widely known as people who command attention. For”
“Whenever “everyone” is doing something, I seek to avoid it. But whenever someone tells me not to do something, that thing has a way of becoming the only thing that I want to do. I”
“My funny old brain, like those of many poets, has always done its best work sideways, seeking out tricky enjambments and surprising slant rhymes to craft lines capable of pulling their own weight.”
“I was not a believer in things just changing. One had to try to change them.”
“Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs. I”
“caelum, non animum mutant, for instance—climate may change, but not character—and”
“Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.”
“Whenever “everyone” is doing something, I seek to avoid it. But whenever someone tells me not to do something, that thing has a way of becoming the only thing that I want to do.”
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Book Keywords:
anger, perspective, poetry, parenting, expression, feeling
