I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work … - Randall Mann

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Randall Mann

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

Cringe, Like, Thinking, Want, Way, Work

Same Author Quotes

Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick
of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.

Art, Cynicism, Everyday, Exhaustion, Sick

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.

Almosts, Poem, Rhyme, Turn, Turns, Wanted

I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun working the vernacular of work into poems. I'm also writing some poems about family. And I don't know, just writing. Taking breaks. Writing some more.

Drywall, Fun, Guess, Sound, Work, Writing

I am probably going to pay for this at some point, but I think pretty much everyone I come into contact with is fair game. So I use real names sometimes if the poem says it happened like that. It feels right if I use the real person I reference. Of course the poem is all lies, even when it's true, so I guess I can sleep at night.

Game, Guess, Lying, Probably, Real, Sleep

I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.

Grumbled, Helped, Men, Noise, Probably, Uniforms

Similar Quotes

Emily Dickinson

Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

Begun, Glasses, Immortal, Letters, Wall

Milan Kundera

Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.

Europe, Fruit, Important, Members, Toil, Translators

W. H. Auden

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Change, Children, Difference, Growing Up, Know, Learning

Miguel de Unamuno

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Awaits, Fate, Let, Men, Nothingness, Unjust

Robert E. Lee

I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations

Endeavored, Fall, Father, Preservation, Thanks, War